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

• 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。
• After initial census, births and deaths were reported by village informants and updated monthly by project enumerators.
  经过初步的普查，由各村庄报告人提供具体的出生和死亡人数并由该项目的人口普查员进行每月更新。
• 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。
• Southeast Asian informants may be behind this.
  可能是中国在东南亚的间谍。
• As in the Galleon case, investigators used court-authorised wire taps of cell phones, hidden recording devices and information from confidential informants to build the case against at least seven of the new defendants named yesterday.
  与帆船集团的案件一样，调查人员在法庭的授权下，使用手机窃听、暗藏录音装置和秘密线民提供的信息，针对昨日指名的至少7名新被告人进行取证。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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？
• Then someone is killing the informants in the same manner?
  所以有人以相同的方式杀害告密者？