- 1內部人士、圈內人。講股票時，台灣說「內線交易」；中國大陸較常說「內幕交易」。
An insider is someone inside a group, a company, or an organisation, so they know things that people on the outside do not. A hospital insider may know how decisions are really made. A political insider knows what is happening behind the public talk. Though actually, the word is not only about secrets. Sometimes it just means “one of us”: a person who belongs to a scene, a sport, or a job. The darker use is using private company news to buy or sell shares — in English, insider trading; that is against the law. Newspapers like the word because it suggests special knowledge. It is common in news and business English. In casual talk, people also call someone an insider when they are really in a small circle.
From the word’s history
inside + -er.
由 inside 加 -er 構成，指「在裡面的人」。
組成inside + -er (“a person who”). A person who is on the inside.
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
insidernoun/ɪnˈsaɪdɚ/
- 1
A person who has special knowledge about the inner workings of a group, organization, or institution.
- Near-synonyms: initiate, old hand, habitué
- Heavy losses were sustained in Simms Petroleum, which took a greater toll from supposed "Wall Street insiders" than from the general public.
- 2
A person who is within an enclosed space.
- To the insider, the ceiling is like a small firmament twinkling with astral radiations.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。