informer
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n. 密告者, 控告者, 通知者 [法] 控告人, 通知者, 告密者
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词形变化
informers
复数
informers
别名
informor
informour
释义与例句
n.
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1.
One who informs someone else about something.
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2.
A person who tells authorities about improper or illegal activity.
Being an informer often meant living in fear.
The police relied on an informer to catch the gang.
He acted as an informer during the rebellion.
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3.
One who informs, animates, or inspires.
1729, Alexander Pope, Prologue to Sophonisba (by James Thomson Nature, informer of the poet's art.
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词源
Inherited from Middle English enformour, from Anglo-Norman enfourmour; equivalent to inform + -er.
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