tip off

英 [ˈtɪp ɒf]

美 [ˈtɪp ɔːf]

给…通风报信; 暗中告知

柯林斯词典

• PHRASAL VERB 给…通风报信;暗中告知
  If someonetipsyouoff, they give you information about something that has happened or is going to happen.
  1. Greg tipped police off on his car phone about a suspect drunk driver...
     格雷格用他的汽车电话向警方报告了一个有酒后驾驶嫌疑的司机。
  2. He was arrested two days later after a friend tipped off the FBI.
     他的一个朋友给美国联邦调查局报了信两天以后他就被捕了。

英英释义

verb

• give insider information or advise to
  1. He tipped off the police about the terrorist plot
  Synonym:tip

双语例句

• And lastly, I copied the tip of the finger off our original source and pasted it over the zipper's pull tab to situate the tab underneath.
  最后，我再把手指尖的部分复制下来覆盖出拉链的拉扣，这样手指就搭在了拉扣上。
• The heavy reliance on message passing and the notion that Self applications are always running should tip you off that late binding is a central theme in Self.
  从Self对消息传送的严重依赖以及Self应用程序一直运行这一概念可以看出：延迟绑定是Self的中心课题。
• Did you tip her off about this case?
  你向她透露过这个案子吗？
• An implement for cutting the tip off of a cigar.
  切割香烟末端的工具。
• You might ask though, is there some other behavior, something else that should tip us off, could tip us off, as to whether or not we really do or don't believe that we're going to die?
  你可能会问，有没有其他行为，能够让我们突然醒悟，知道我们真正是否相信自己会死呢？
• Go to your father, taking him aside and tip him off that the man is a swindler.
  到你父亲那里，把他带到一边，悄悄告诉他那人是个骗子。
• The tip must've broken off before the attack.
  刀尖一定在攻击前就已断裂。
• Workers apt to tip off peers, not bosses: survey.
  调查：多数职员不提醒上司难堪事。
• Greg tipped police off on his car phone about a suspect drunk driver
  格雷格用他的汽车电话向警方报告了一个有酒后驾驶嫌疑的司机。
• The police arrested him after an anonymous tip off.
  在接到匿名举报后，警方逮捕了他。