英语释义

1. one who reveals something covert or who informs against another especially an employee who brings wrongdoing by an employer or by other employees to the attention of a government or law enforcement agency Note: A whistleblower is commonly protected legally from retaliation.
I think whistleblowers play a hugely important role in countering the worst corporate and government excesses.
— Damon Poeter … pledges to protect whistle-blowers who fear reprisals for their efforts.
— Wall Street Journal Congress also added significant new protection for whistleblowers. The 1986 act provides remedies including reinstatement, back-pay with interest, and, as appropriate, punitive damages for whistleblowers who are discharged, demoted, or discriminated against due to involvement with a False Claims disclosure.
— Bradford A. Penney

2. an employee who brings wrongdoing by an employer or other employees to the attention of a government or law enforcement agency and who is commonly vested by statute with rights and remedies for retaliation — compare qui tam action

英汉例句

• The whistleblowing activists say they have deleted all names from the documents that might result in reprisals.

  这位从事解密活动的人士说他们已经删除了这份文件中出现的所有可能招致报复的人名。

• The cables, obtained by WikiLeaks, the whistleblowing website, detail an overture by a 「well-connected」 Burmese businessman acting as the government「s informal envoy.

  这些电报详述了一位「人脉广泛」、作为政府非正式特使的缅甸商人的提议。

• News America learned of Emmel」s whistleblowing activities after it had sacked him in a dispute over his timekeeping. It then unleashed its legal armoury against him.

  美国新闻是在辞退了艾梅尔之后发现他的告密行动的，很快就对他进行了司法诉讼。

• In 2004 ministers decided to make data on whistleblowing claims secret, so it is hard to tell how well the act is working.

  早在2004，政府便做出关于检举言论的决定：规定一切数据都保密，这给现在工作的进展带来很大麻烦。

• The whistleblowing website Wikileaks published the messages over a 24-hour period beginning on Tuesday at dawn, releasing them in batches in chronological order as if in real time.

  周二黎明时分，「告密者」「维基解密」网站开始在接下来的24小时内公布这些信息，这些消息如同实时再现一般，按照年月日的顺序被分批发表。

• Many fired employees now throw in dubious whistleblowing claims, he says, in an attempt to persuade firms to settle out of court.

  很多被解雇的员工现在都处在没有把握的检举索赔的境地，西蒙·芬顿谈到，他们希望能与公司进行庭外调解。

• The service remains one of the few income sources that hasn't been closed off to the controversial whistleblowing website in recent weeks.

  近几周内关闭了一些有争议的揭秘网站的捐款渠道，因此，这项服务就成为它们为数不多的收益来源。

• But it all aligns with what many commentators, researchers and whistleblowing insiders have been identifying for some years now.

  但是，这全部都与许多评论员，研究人员和内部揭发者在过去几年里揭露出来的事情相符合。

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