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。
• And someone who knows this is taking revenge on the informants.
  知道真相的人正在报复告密者。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• You mean, wait until all five informants are dead?
  你是说等到五个告密者都死掉？
• 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。
• 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。
• Then you must know the remaining two informants.
  那你一定知道剩下的告密者。