| 词组 | informant, informer |
| 释义 | informant, informer An informer may simply be someone who informs but is usually someone who informs against someone else underhandedly, as a spy or a police informer who gets paid for information. An informant may be the same thing as an informer, but most often informant denotes someone who informs in a general way or provides cultural or linguistic information to a researcher. • ... a rich storehouse of information ... the informers are (among others) Herodotus, Frank Stockton, Marco Polo —Jean Stafford, New Yorker, 3 Dec. 1973 • ... he began using informers to convict rich men of real or imaginary crimes —Robert Graves, I, Claudius, 1934 • Still another cause for disciplinary action is the charge of being an informer —J. Edgar Hoover, Masters of Deceit, 1958 • The intrigue in Mrs. Gutierrez's life has been created by her career. She is a professional informant.... Between 1968 and the present, Mrs. Gutierrez has been a paid informer —Nicholas M. Horrock, N. Y. Times, 2 Apr. 1975 • If the Government thinks the need to deport a given individual is great enough, it may decide to name its informants —Harvard Law Rev., February 1953 • ... we had lately received a very alarming account from Paragon. Miss Arnold was the informant then, and she spoke of... —Jane Austen, letter, 10 Jan. 1809 • ... choosing informants for the preparation of a dialect atlas —G. L. Brook, English Dialects, 1963 • ... some of Mayer's other findings were more surprising. One informant after another revealed that American films stirred a deep discontent —David Robinson, Saturday Rev., 13 Dec. 1975 |
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