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

• 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。
• His reward is believed to be the largest bestowed on a whistleblower.
  据信，他获得的奖励是举报人受到嘉奖最多的一次。
• It means strengthening whistleblower protections for government employees who step forward to report wasteful spending.
  这意味著加强保护政府雇员中挺身报告挥霍浪费的告密者。
• The securities and Exchange Commission began its own whistleblower programme in 2011.
  美国证券交易委员会在2011年创建了自己的告密者计划。
• His intent was to act as a whistleblower, not as a spy for a foreign government, he told the magazine.
  他告诉该杂志，他的目的是揭发高密，而不是外国政府间谍。
• But 68 percent said they were not aware of the new federal whistleblower program, which is being operated by the Securities and Exchange Commission.
  但68%的人说他们不知道联邦政府有这个新告密者项目。该项目是由证券交易委员会运作的。
• 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。
• A separate internal probe into the whistleblower allegations failed to find evidence of systemic corruption but did find isolated cases of wrongdoing that resulted in staff dismissals, GSK said.
  GSK表示，对举报人指控展开的一项内部调查未能发现系统性腐败的证据，但确实发现了个别的不当行为，并因此解雇了一些员工。
• 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。
• 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。