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.- 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。
- He has been a prominent victim of alleged witch-hunts against whistle-blowers in the NHS.
英英释义
noun
- 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
双语例句
- 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。 - She called him a whistleblower.
她称宾尼为揭发者。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - From another perspective, it can harm the whistleblower and the company.
从另外一个角度看,它会伤害到个人和组织。 - 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。 - The Americans have had a Fifa whistleblower, Chuck Blazer, helping them amass large volumes of evidence.
美国人这次得到告密者ChuckBlazer的帮助,他帮忙收集了大量的证据。 - Der Spiegel said it had gained partial access to a top secret NSA document dated 2010 that was obtained by Edward Snowden, an agency contractor turned whistleblower.
《明镜》称,它看到了一份日期为2010年的NSA绝密文件的一部分,该文件是由NSA前合同工、后来变成泄密者的爱德华•斯诺登(EdwardSnowden)获得的。 - 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。