informer

• n. 告密者；通知者；控告人

來自inform,通知。引申詞義線人。

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.

1. Prentice saw Goss fall in behind the informer.

普倫蒂斯看見戈斯走在密探身後。

來自柯林斯例句

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

警方給線人提供了一個安全屋.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

3. One of the gang members had turned informer.

團夥中的一員後來變成了告密者.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

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

歹徒頭目決定要將告密者用汽車綁架去幹掉.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

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

他隨時都可以聲稱索洛佐是他要去會見的一個告密的人.

來自教父部分