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

• He was going to see his informant.
  他是去见那个告密人？
• Now tell me who the other informant is.
  现在请告诉我谁是告密者。
• 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。
• And bring our informant back by tomorrow morning.
  在明早把我们的线人带回来。
• Your informant's on the phone.
  那个线人打电话找你。
• Fully acknowledge the cooperation of informant Lee sangdo.
  完全承认了与李善度线人的合作。
• Do you have any idea why your informant wanted to have you killed?
  知道为什么你的线人想害死你吗？
• This guy's your informant, right?
  那个人是你的线人，对吗？
• Any idea why your informant wanted you killed?
  你的线民为什么要杀你吗？
• The informant that was killed yesterday? I was there.
  告密者昨天被杀了，我在场。