whistleblower
英 美['hwɪsəl,bloɚ]
- 告发者；检举者
英英释义
- 1. an informant who exposes wrongdoing within an organization in the hope of stopping it;
- "the law gives little protection to whistleblowers who feel the public has a right to know what is going on"
- "the whistleblower was fired for exposing the conditions in mental hospitals"
实用场景例句
- Often , though, it is the whistleblower's own career that suffers most.
- 尽管, 检举的结果常常是自己的事业影响最大.
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- The whistleblower was fired for exposing the conditions in mental hospitals.
- 告密者由于泄漏精神病院的情况而被解雇.
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双语例句
- 1. Often , though, it is the whistleblower's own career that suffers most.
- 尽管, 检举的结果常常是自己的事业影响最大.
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- 2. The whistleblower was fired for exposing the conditions in mental hospitals.
- 告密者由于泄漏精神病院的情况而被解雇.
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- 3. The Liberals first raised the notion of whistleblower legislation in the fall of 2003.
- 自由党在2003年秋天首度提及立法保护吹哨者的观念.
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英文词源
- whistleblower (n.)
- also whistle-blower, 1963 in the figurative sense, American English, from whistle (n.) as something sounded in an alert + agent noun from blow (v.1).