informants

英 [ɪnˈfɔːmənts]

美 [ɪnˈfɔrmənts]

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
informant的复数

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.

双语例句

• The evidence of police informants needs to be treated with caution.
  警方情报中搜集的证据应当得到慎重对待。
• So they were all monetarily and materially incented, the informants.
  因此对于线人可以用钱和物质的刺激。
• Gangs have murdered several children shortly after their releases because of suspicions that they gained their freedom by becoming informants.
  海地犯罪团夥已经谋杀了数名被释放的少年犯，因为犯罪团夥怀疑孩子们是因为泄漏了团夥内幕才重获了自由。
• They listened to every phone call, every conversation; they had all of their informants.
  他们可以窃听每一个电话，每一次谈话，他们有自己的线人。
• Informants hoping to gain financial reward will often notify the I.R.S. of friends and colleagues falsifying tax returns.
  第二种信息来源来自想得到报酬而将朋友和同事虚填纳税申报单通知税务局的人。
• Other agencies are now wooing informants, too.
  其他机构也对告密者求贤若渴。
• Assholes use taxi drivers as their informants now.
  混蛋们居然用出租车司机当他们的线人。
• The informants were anonymous, how did he know who they were?
  告密者是无名氏，他怎么知道告密者是谁？
• At the time, the DoJ was criticised for sending the wrong message to would-be informants.
  当时，人们批评美国司法部向潜在举报人传递了错误的信息。
• TI publishes regular reports with reliable data concerning corruption. TI points out that some of its informants live locally; others were born there.
  透明国际定期发布带有与腐败有关的可靠数据的报告。透明国际指出，接受其调查的人中，一些人在当地生活，其他人则是在那里出生。