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单词 pose
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poseverb

uk/pəʊz/us/poʊz/

pose verb (CAUSE)

C1 [ T ] to cause something, especially a problem or difficulty:

Nuclear weapons pose a threat to everyone.
The mountain terrain poses particular problems for civil engineers.

More examples

  • Drunken drivers pose a serious threat to other road users.
  • The students were deported because they posed a threat to national security.
  • The very high rate of inflation poses a serious problem for the government.
  • The result of the vote poses a serious challenge to the government's credibility.
  • Officials claim that the chemical leakage poses no real danger for surrounding residents.

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Causing difficulties for oneself or others

  • be a tall order idiom
  • be asking for trouble idiom
  • be your own worst enemy idiom
  • bugger
  • bugger sb about
  • dig
  • lay
  • lay yourself open to attack, criticism, ridicule, etc. idiom
  • like pulling teeth idiom
  • make a rod for your own back idiom
  • make heavy weather of sth idiom
  • overburden
  • shoot
  • spell trouble idiom
  • store
  • store sth up
  • store up trouble/problems idiom
  • subject sb/sth to sth
  • suicide
  • wrong-foot

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pose verb (ASK)

C2 [ T ] to ask a question, especially in a formal situation such as a meeting:

Can we go back to the question that Helena posed earlier?

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Questioning people & asking questions in general

  • beat
  • bombard
  • canvass
  • cross-question
  • debrief
  • desk research
  • enquiry
  • feel sb/sth out
  • grilling
  • interrogate
  • interview
  • interviewee
  • opinion poll
  • pin
  • Q, q
  • questioner
  • questioning
  • third
  • what do you have to say for yourself? idiom
  • worm

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pose verb (POSITION)

C1 [ I ] to move into and stay in a particular position, in order to be photographed, painted, etc.:

We all posed for our photographs next to the Statue of Liberty.

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Sitting and standing

  • akimbo
  • astride
  • attention
  • bestride
  • cross-legged
  • crouch
  • four
  • pew
  • plump (sb/sth) down
  • rampant
  • seated
  • seating
  • sit sth out
  • stand
  • stand aside
  • stand round
  • strike
  • take a pew! idiom
  • take the weight off your feet/legs idiom
  • weight

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pose verb (PRETEND)

[ I ] to pretend to be something that you are not or to have qualities that you do not have, in order to be admired or attract interest:

He doesn't really know a thing about the theatre - he's just posing!

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Faking & pretending

  • a wolf in sheep's clothing idiom
  • affect
  • assume
  • believe
  • changeling
  • charlatan
  • falsify
  • feign
  • fraud
  • go through the motions idiom
  • guise
  • phoney
  • play at sth
  • play possum idiom
  • play sth out
  • play-acting
  • professed
  • purport
  • put sth on
  • quack

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Phrasal verb(s)

pose as sb

posenoun

uk/pəʊz/us/poʊz/

pose noun (POSITION)

[ C ] a particular position in which a person stands, sits, etc. in order to be photographed, painted, etc.:

He adopted/assumed/struck (= moved into) an elegant pose.

pose noun (PRETENDING)

[ C usually singular ] an occasion when someone pretends to have qualities that they do not have:

She likes to appear as if she knows all about the latest films and art exhibitions, but it's all a pose (= she's pretending and it's not true).

Thesaurus: synonyms and related words

Faking & pretending

  • a wolf in sheep's clothing idiom
  • affect
  • assume
  • believe
  • changeling
  • charlatan
  • falsify
  • feign
  • fraud
  • go through the motions idiom
  • guise
  • phoney
  • play at sth
  • play possum idiom
  • play sth out
  • play-acting
  • professed
  • purport
  • put sth on
  • quack

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