informant

英 [ɪnˈfɔːmənt]

美 [ɪnˈfɔːrmənt]

n.  (向警方或报纸)提供消息的人，告密者，线人; (为研究等)提供资料的人; 合作者

复数：informants　

IELTSTEM8经济

Collins.1 / BNC.9022 / COCA.7105

牛津词典

noun

• （向警方或报纸）提供消息的人，告密者，线人
  a person who gives secret information about sb/sth to the police or a newspaper
• （为研究等）提供资料的人；合作者
  a person who gives sb information about sth, for example to help them with their research
  1. His informants were middle-class professional women.
     他的合作者是中产阶级职业妇女。

柯林斯词典

• 信息提供人
  Aninformantis someone who gives another person a piece of information.
• 同 informer
  Aninformantis the same as aninformer.

英英释义

noun

• a person who supplies information
  Synonym:source
• someone who sees an event and reports what happened
  Synonym:witnesswitnesser

双语例句

• I feel that what the informant says may well be true.
  我认为那个提供消息的人说的可能是真的。
• I told him what I knew about nathan's informant.
  我告诉他我知道内森有个告密人。
• And bring our informant back by tomorrow morning.
  在明早把我们的线人带回来。
• This guy's your informant, right?
  那个人是你的线人，对吗？
• He isn't the murderer, he's the last informant.
  他不是凶手，他是最后的告密者。
• You can't release the informant's name to law enforcement.
  根据法律，你不能透露那名线人的名字。
• The informant that was killed yesterday? I was there.
  告密者昨天被杀了，我在场。
• Society would call you an informant, a rat, a snitch.
  社会上称你为告密者、小人和小贼。
• I feel likea mob informant.
  我感觉像是一个黑帮里的线人。
• Are you prepared to witness to the honesty of your informant?
  你准备为你消息提供者的诚实作证吗？