1.affected manners intended to impress others;
don't put on airs with me
2.a posture assumed by models for photographic or artistic purposes
3.a deliberate pretense or exaggerated display
1.introduce;
This poses an interesting question
2.assume a posture as for artistic purposes;
We don't know the woman who posed for Leonardo so often
3.pretend to be someone you are not; sometimes with fraudulent intentions;
She posed as the Czar's daughter
4.behave affectedly or unnaturally in order to impress others;
Don't pay any attention to him--he is always posing to impress his peers!
5.put into a certain place or abstract location;
Put your things here
6.be a mystery or bewildering to;
This beats me!
"pose"翻译为姿势,在模特儿行业或演艺圈经常被提起。模特儿拍照、走台的时候都要摆"pose"。尽管现时提倡自然的姿态,但这并不意味着她们可以甩开臂膀迈鸭步,再自然也还是"摆"出来的。所以搔首弄姿、矫揉造作等等在这里不一定是贬义词,优劣之分只在于摆pose的技艺以及是否符合客户的要求。