One way to picture it: putting something down in a fixed position and letting it stay there for others to look at. You hold your body still for the camera; you set a question down in front of a room; you put on a self for people to see. In every case something is placed, and then held there in view.
From the word’s history
From Old French poser "to put, place, set down," from Vulgar Latin pausāre "to halt, pause" (Latin pausa). The two halves of the modern word are already in the root: place it, and stop there.
來自古法文 poser「放置、擺放」，再往上是通俗拉丁文 pausāre「停下、暫停」（拉丁 pausa，就是英文 pause 的來源）。現代 pose 的兩個關鍵動作在字根裡已經都有了：「放到位」加上「停住」。這也解釋了為什麼擺姿勢的英文是 pose——不是隨便動一動，而是擺好之後不准動。
Wiktionary ("pose", verb: Middle English posen ← Old French poser ← Vulgar Latin pausāre ← Latin pausa ← Ancient Greek παῦσις); note the separate posen ← aposen/opposen branch listed for the "ask a question" sense
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原始詞典資料14 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
posenoun詞源 1/poʊz/
- 1
archaicCommon cold, head cold; catarrh.
- Now […] have we many chimnies, and yet our tenderlings complain of rheums, catarrhs, and poses.
- Megg yesterday was troubled with a pose, Which, this night hardned, sodders up her nose.
poseverb詞源 2/poʊz/
- 1
To place in an attitude or fixed position, for the sake of effect.
- To pose a model for a picture.
- 2
To ask; to set (a test, quiz, riddle, etc.).
- 3
To constitute (a danger, a threat, a risk, etc.).
- Rather, they are concerned with the threat Iran poses to the region and the world.
- Rooney's United team-mate Chris Smalling was given his debut at right-back and was able to adjust to the international stage in relatively relaxed fashion as Bulgaria barely posed a threat of any consequence.
- 4
To falsely impersonate (another person or occupation) primarily for the purpose of accomplishing something or reaching a goal.
- 5
To assume or maintain a pose; to strike an attitude.
- He […] posed before her as a hero.
- 6
To behave affectedly in order to attract interest or admiration.
- dressed-to-kill babes and their sugar daddies would rather pose in malls, and teenagers can find McDonald's anywhere, leaving Váci utterly dependent on tourists for its livelihood and bustle.
- 7
obsoleteTo interrogate; to question.
- She pretended to […] pose him and sift him.
- 8
obsoleteTo question with a view to puzzling; to embarrass by questioning or scrutiny; to bring to a stand.
- A question wherewith a learned Pharisee thought to pose or puzzle him.
- The Doctor […] had likewise a pair of little eyes that were always half shut up, and a mouth that was always half expanded into a grin, as if he had, that moment, posed a boy, and were waiting to convict him from his own lips.
posenoun詞源 2/poʊz/
- 1
Position, posture, arrangement (especially of the human body).
- Please adopt a more graceful pose for my camera.
- Then came a maid with hand-bag and shawls, and after her a tall young lady. She stood for a moment holding her skirt above the grimy steps, with something of the stately pose which Richter has given his Queen Louise on the stairway,[…].
- 2
Affectation.
poseverb詞源 3/poʊz/
- 1
obsoleteTo ask (someone) questions; to interrogate.
- And hit fortuned that after .iii. dayes, they founde hym in the temple sittinge in the middes of the doctours, both hearynge them, and posinge them.
- 'Tis my solitary recreation to pose my apprehension with those involved Ænigmas and riddles of the Trinity, with Incarnation and Resurrection.
- 2
archaicto puzzle, non-plus, or embarrass with difficult questions.
- 3
archaicTo perplex or confuse (someone).
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。