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

• You mean, wait until all five informants are dead?
  你是说等到五个告密者都死掉？
• 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。
• 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。
• In recent years, a kind of media information provider called "People of giving news clues"( or news informants) has appeared in every city of our country.
  近年来，在我国各城市都出现了一类被称作“新闻报料人”（或新闻线人）的媒体信息提供者。
• We can identify the informants in a few days.
  我们不要几天就能发现这些告密者的身份。
• "In the Spanish-language sessions, informants perceived females as more self-sufficient and extroverted," they said.
  “说西班牙语时，被调查者认为女性更自立、更外向。”研究者说。
• 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？
• Southeast Asian informants may be behind this.
  可能是中国在东南亚的间谍。
• 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。