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　

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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

• The journalist did not want to reveal the identity of his informant.
  那个新闻工作者不想透露消息提供人的身分。
• He talked to his informant last night.
  他说昨晚和告密人谈过。
• They let him walk as a situated informant.
  他们后来放他走了，但要他做线人。
• 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。
• They suspect you to be the informant.
  他们怀疑你是告密者。
• I feel likea mob informant.
  我感觉像是一个黑帮里的线人。
• It seems that every person he knew was an informant.
  好像每个认识他的人都是告密者。
• 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。
• This guy's your informant, right?
  那个人是你的线人，对吗？