inform过去分词

1. 通知，通告
2. 告密，告发，密告
3. 告诉，告知，启禀，知会
4. 报告，向…报告
5. 使活跃，使活泼，使生气勃勃，赋予活力
6. 使充满
7. 教导， 教，教育
8. 关照说
9. （使）了解，（使）熟悉
10. 对…有影响
11. 检举
12. 赋于…以性格
13. 形成（思想）
14. 训练
15. 激励
16. 给…以形状

1. 不成形的
2. 无形状的

1. vt. 告知,通知 give information or knowledge to; tell
2. vi. 检举,告密 give the police, or sb in a position of power, information about the guilt of sb

1.通知;告知
If youinform someoneof something, you tell them about it.

inform

e.g. They wouldinform him of any progress they had made...
他们会把他们取得的任何进步都告诉他。
e.g. My daughter informed me that she was pregnant...
我女儿告诉我她怀孕了。

2.告发;检举
If someoneinforms on a person, they give information about the person to the police or another authority, which causes the person to be suspected or proved guilty of doing something bad.

e.g. Somebody must have informed on us...
肯定有人告发我们了。
e.g. Thousands of American citizens have informed on these organized crime syndicates.
数以千计的美国公民检举过这些有组织的犯罪团伙。

3.赋(思想或特质)于;渗透入
If a situation or activityis informed by an idea or a quality, that idea or quality is very noticeable in it.

e.g. All great songs are informed by a certain sadness and tension...
所有很棒的歌曲都透着某种悲伤和张力。
e.g. The concept of the Rose continued toinform the poet's work.
玫瑰的概念持续贯穿于诗人的作品中。

• inform police通知
• inform weather conditions预报天气

• inform authoritatively官方通知
• inform immediately〔personally〕立即〔亲自〕通知

• inform about告诉…
• inform against〔on〕告发
• inform sb of the fact把这事告诉某人
• inform on one's accomplices告发同谋犯
• inform sb with new life使某人获得新生命

• Bleak Crags, and naked Hills, And the whole Prospect so inform and rude.

  出自：C. Cotton

• Her constant beauty doth inform Stillness with love, and day with light.

  出自：Tennyson

• As a poem is informed by a..scheme of rhythm.

  出自：H. Belloc

• ☆ 14世纪初期进入英语，直接源自拉丁语的informare：in (往里） + forma (形式，形成），意为塑造，培养，教育。