CHARACTER/PERSONALITYthe way you behave when you are with other people or in a particular situation, which gives people a particular idea about your character (伪装的)外表,形象
Joel has a cheerful public persona but in private he’s different.
public persona• They say Alexander is as down-to-earth and folksy as his public persona.• It was part of the naturalness of his public persona.• Self-deprecation is a calculated part of his public persona.• Morrissey's retreat was probably due to a realisation that he couldn't control his own public persona.• Who was there here who knew her well enough to discern and identify any flaws in her own polishedpublic persona?• And what function do we accord, then, to Hitler's public persona in explaining the process which led to Auschwitz?• In 1983 the whole party could blame the public persona of Mr Foot.• Of course, there've been other, less welcomealterations to their public persona.