whistleblower

英

美 [ˈwɪsəlˌbloʊər]

n.  告发者;揭发者

复数：whistleblowers　第三人称单数：whistleblowers　

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 告发者;检举者
  Awhistle-bloweris someone who finds out that the organization they are working for is doing something immoral or illegal and tells the authorities or the public about it.
  1. He has been a prominent victim of alleged witch-hunts against whistle-blowers in the NHS.
     他成了英国国民保健制度下所谓追查报复检举者行动的典型牺牲品。

英英释义

noun

• an informant who exposes wrongdoing within an organization in the hope of stopping it
  1. the law gives little protection to whistleblowers who feel the public has a right to know what is going on
  2. the whistleblower was fired for exposing the conditions in mental hospitals
  Synonym:whistle blowerwhistle-blower

双语例句

• After a whistleblower made allegations against the company last year, GSK first relied on an internal probe with external legal and auditor support.
  在去年举报者提出指控之后，GSK最初依赖于内部调查，辅之以外部法律和审计支持。
• The SEC says the new whistleblower rules, which became effective on August 12, resulted in 334 complaints through the end of September.
  美国证券交易委员会称，新的告密者条例于8月12日生效，到9月底已经收到了334份控诉。
• She called him a whistleblower.
  她称宾尼为揭发者。
• Only after we completed our background investigation on the whistleblower did they reveal the details to us.
  在我们完成了对举报人的背景调查后，他们才向我们透露了细节。
• And this is the age of the whistleblower if they were all crooks, surely they would get caught.
  这是一个告密者盛行的时代，如果这些企业家是骗子的话，一定会被逮住。
• They said they had been contacted by a whistleblower on board a state-sponsored whaling ship where crew members were illegally receiving boxes of whale meat.
  他们说，一个由国家赞助捕鲸的船上的举报者联系了他们，举报说：船员们已经非法的接受了整箱的的鲸肉。
• Russian president brings end to mystery over whistleblower's whereabouts after days of confusion.
  俄罗斯总统结束了多日来对于告密者行踪的各种猜想。
• We know that person is very influential and I believed she was indeed the whistleblower.
  我们知道此人是很有影响力的，我相信她的确是举报者。
• While the IRS was aware of tax compliance issues related to secret bank accounts in Switzerland and elsewhere, the information provided by the whistleblower formed the basis for unprecedented actions against UBS.
  尽管IRS已注意到有关瑞士和其他地方秘密银行账户的税务合规问题，但举报人的信息为针对瑞银的空前大规模诉讼提供了依据。
• That law strengthened whistleblower protections against retaliation and provided for financial incentives to report wrongdoing.
  该法案加强了保护告密者不受报复的措施，并向告发不法行为者提供了各种经济奖励。