tipster

单词tipster

基本解释

n.: 提供赛马情报的人（常指贩卖情报者）；（犯罪行为等的）举报者
网络: 情报贩子；告密者；报明牌者

权威解释

• 提供赛马情报的人（常指贩卖情报者）:

  a person who tells you, often in exchange for money, which horse is likely to win a race, so that you can bet on it and win money

• （犯罪行为等的）举报者，告密者:

  a person who gives information to the police about a crime or criminal

英汉解释

• 提供情报者

• 〔口语〕提供(赛马等)消息[内情、行情]的人

词性分析

• 复数：tipsters

同义词

n.adviserconsultantanalystinformantinformer

例句

• He said authorities were working to track down the tipster and determine how she had such detailed information on the house.

  他说，有关当局正在努力掌握线人的详细资料，确定她对这所房子的信息到底掌握多少。

• Days later, Dozier was rescued by an Italian SWAT team, after a tipster led them to his location.

  几天后，意大利反恐特警组救出了多兹尔将军，一名线人带领他们找到关押他的地点。

• Do you expect me to take your word over that of an anonymous tipster?

  你指望我相信你而不信匿名举报者吗？

• The suspect is someone who has not been previously investigated, and Mr Gutt said initial vetting supported the belief of the tipster.

  嫌疑人先前从未被调查过，格特先生称初步核查的结果支持存在情报提供者的这种看法。

• Our tipster called it "lame" that Google was only offering the new version of the site to Chrome users.

  我们的线人认为谷歌只提供新版本的服务给使用googlechrome浏览器的用户这个做法很差劲。

• If the tipster was correct, time had already run out.

  如果告密者提供的消息是准确的，那么剩下的时间已经不多了。

• The anonymous tipster shot back that traffic cops don"t tend to cluster like that.

  匿名的曝料者反驳道，交警一般不会像这样扎堆执勤的。

• One tipster told the tech blog Boing Boing that he was "told by a friend" that slaughterhouses in Iraq sometimes dump blood into canals.

  一位匿名人士曾告诉著名科技博客BoingBoing他“从一个朋友那儿”得知伊拉克的屠宰场有时将血直接倾入运河当中。

• The police need to find the anonymous tipster if they want to solve the crime.

  如果警察想破案的话，就要找到那个匿名的线人。

• Do we have a name on the tipster?

  我们有那个线人的名字吗？