informant
informant 英 [ɪnˈfɔ:mənt] 美 [ɪnˈfɔrmənt]
n. 线人；提供消息者
名词复数:informants
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- n. 线人；提供消息者
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1. His informants were middle-class professional women.
他的合作者是中产阶级职业妇女。
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2. 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
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3. He is also an informant for the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
他也是联邦调查局的线人。
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4. Help me find this informant, and all this goes away.
帮我找到这个线人 事情就能大白。
- informant (n.) 1690s, "someone who supplies information," from Latin informantem (nominative informans), present participle of informare "train, instruct, educate" (see inform). Occasionally as "one who gives information to the authorities, one who dishonorably betrays knowledge gained in confidence" (1783). Informer is older in both senses and more usual in the latter. As an adjective from 1890.
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