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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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 told him what I knew about nathan's informant.
  我告诉他我知道内森有个告密人。
• I was contacted by an informant in baku.
  我们在巴库的线人联系我。
• You're an FBI informant?
  你是联邦调查局线人？
• And the first thing he's gonna want to do is find his informant.
  而他要做的第一件事就是找到他的线人。
• I feel likea mob informant.
  我感觉像是一个黑帮里的线人。
• Fully acknowledge the cooperation of informant Lee sangdo.
  完全承认了与李善度线人的合作。
• 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？
• The informant is expected to provide the information about the deceased.
  希望义务报告人提供关于死者的情况。
• I had a meeting with an informant in yugoslavia.
  我在南斯拉夫与一个情报人员见面。
• They suspect you to be the informant.
  他们怀疑你是告密者。