通风报信 [
tōng fēng bào xìn]
send news secretly
furnish secret information
provide someone with information
send a secret message
tip sb. off
- 因此,在征兵骚乱发生的时候,有人给他通风报信,让他离开。
So at the time of the Draft Riots he was warned to leave. - 你要切忌触碰“种族”界限----许多囚徒种族隔离意识森严,连电话也有“黑”“白”之分。 此外,亦要小心交友不慎,结交了“大老鼠”(即通风报信之徒)。
Do not cross racial lines—many federal prisons are so segregated that they have “black” telephones and “white” telephones—and do not make friends with a “rat”, or known informant. - 凯瑟琳对于这种怠慢表示出了孩子气的恼怒;用轻蔑来相报,如此就把我这个通风报信的人也列入她的敌人之列,记下了仇,好像她做了天大的对不起她的事似的。
Catherine evinced a child's annoyance at this neglect; repaid it with contempt, and thus enlisted my informant among her enemies, as securely as if she had done her some great wrong.