informant
n
1 person who gives information 提供消息或情报的人
The journalist did not want to reveal the identity of his informant. 那个新闻工作者不想透露消息提供人的身分.
2 (linguistics 语言) native speaker of a language who helps a scholar make an analysis of the language 发音合作人(为语言学者分析语言提供资料的说本地话的人).
🔁 扩展释义
*[in'fɒ:mәnt]n. 提供消息者, 密告者, 被调查者【经】 填报人, 被征询人
📖 同为「专四」词汇
annexvt. 附加,追加;吞并(国家、地区等),兼并;获得,得到;
n. 附录;附属物(品),附件;附属建筑;
Do you remember one afternoon ten years ago when I came to your house and borrowed a necklace of yours? Pierre, my husband, was working in a government office. We'd been invited to a ball at the palace so I needed to borrow some jewellery.