informer

• n. 告密者；通知者；控告人

词态变化

中文词源

来自inform,通知。引申词义线人。

英文词源

informer (n.)

late 14c., enfourmer "instructor, teacher," native agent noun from inform and also from Old French enformeor. Meaning "one who gives information against another" (especially in reference to law-breaking) is c. 1500.

双语例句

1. Prentice saw Goss fall in behind the informer.

普伦蒂斯看见戈斯走在密探身后。

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2. The police provided a safe house for the informer.

警方给线人提供了一个安全屋.

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3. One of the gang members had turned informer.

团夥中的一员后来变成了告密者.

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4. The gang leader decided that the informer must be taken for a ride.

歹徒头目决定要将告密者用汽车绑架去干掉.

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5. He could always claim Sollozzo was an informer he was meeting.

他随时都可以声称索洛佐是他要去会见的一个告密的人.

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