1reporting verb Give a spoken or written account of something that one has observed, heard, done, or investigated.

部长报告牛奶和肉类产量有所下降。

警方报告说洪水正在退去。

老师应该汇报孩子的进步。

1. 1.1no object Cover an event or subject as a journalist or a reporter.
   （新闻工作者）报道
   the public disliked the way that the media reported on the scandal

   with clause the Egyptian news agency reported that a coup attempt had taken place

   埃及新闻社报道说发生了一次未遂政变。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • Notes from Underground is a new eye Weekly series in which local arts workers report on their experiences within the Toronto scene.
   • Last August 12, The New York Times reported on a story they also created.
   • Last week this newspaper reported on the potential $1 billion ‘poison put option’ exercisable by Elan bondholders next year.
   • Hemingway, who had become a journalist before the war, married Elisabeth Hadley, and went to report on the war in Greece and Turkey.
   • He interestingly elicits the languor and melancholy of Fowler, fusing this ennui with the action as Fowler journeys up-country to report on the vicious shooting war.
   • Mr. Peterside, I was in Kenya ten years ago to report on the African Trade and Opportunity Act, which has since passed.
   • But news agency AFP reported on Monday that thousands of the League's supporters took to the streets of the capital Dhaka on Monday in protest.
   • This drop was less steep than the 15 per cent decline that NNI had estimated last week, as reported on these pages on the basis of partial data.
   • Reporting on his own life as he used to report on the lives of others, Wiltfong will tell the story of how, as a student, he ran himself over with a car.
   • Coverage such as the Time article illustrates reflexivity because it not only reported on the event, but it drew attention to the production of the event as news.
   • What began as a hobby, took a 15-year-old prodigy rock critic/journalist around America reporting on the up and coming fictional rock band Stillwater.
   • The Independent reported on Saturday that Flying Brands, the mail order flowers and books group, is back on the acquisition trail, six years after its last attempt to expand ended disastrously.
   • An American editor and newspaperman who reported on the Scopes trial, which concerned evolution.
   • They'd sent me up to Lancashire to report on the collapse of the English cotton industry because Japan was taking over.
   • I also take on other stuff like writing articles, reporting on runway shows, talent scouting and consulting/working on other projects in fashion and art…
   • Kidder had been sent to Haiti to report on American troops who were bracing the democratically elected government in the face of a powerful military junta.
   • Sahafi is a journalist and self-proclaimed ‘speaker of the truth’, since he is working in Algiers and trying to report on corrupt officials this is not a pleasant job.
   • John Wilkes writes brilliantly in defence of press freedom to report on Parliament, only to be discredited by a dirty poem written as a young rake.
   • Frankly, the fact that the New York Times made the effort to report on a movie star's religious convictions is a little disturbing.
   • I noticed in a recent issue of Newsweek Magazine that some editor decided to report on a conference where there was much trepidation about bloggers.

   Synonyms

   investigate, look into, enquire into, survey, research, study

   write about, write an account of, broadcast details of, cover, describe, give details of, write up

   commentate on
2. 1.2be reported Used to indicate that something has been stated, although one cannot confirm its accuracy.
   据报道
   with infinitive hoaxers are reported to be hacking into airline frequencies to impersonate air traffic controllers

   据报道有恶意破坏者非法进入航空公司无线电通信频率冒充航空指挥人员。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • Although sales fell a reported six percent during the most recent fiscal year, sources remain confident in the sustainability of the Kinkade brand.
   • Although not reported, the study's findings do not indicate high multicollinearity among cluster variates.
   • In fact, Grainge would love to get his hands on Williams, who recently signed a golden-handcuffs deal with EMI for a reported £40m.
   • However, the captains of the detained ships have been reported as describing the US action as piracy.
   • True enough: except it was reported that David Benioff, author of both book and screenplay, omitted the scene from the script's first draft only for Lee to demand its reinstatement.

   Synonyms

   supposed, so-called, claimed, professed, purported, ostensible, apparent, putative, unproven, rumoured, reputed, presumed, assumed, reported, declared, stated, avowed, described
3. 1.3with object Make a formal statement or complaint about (someone or something) to the necessary authority.
   告发，报告，揭发，汇报，诉说
   undisclosed illegalities are reported to the company's directors

   未公开的违法行为被汇报给公司的董事们。

   with object and complement eight Yorkshire terriers have been reported missing in the last month

   上个月八名约克郡本土防卫义勇军士兵被报告失踪。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • The last requirement would be a formal reporting requirement on a periodic basis to the fund that can be compiled as feedback to the investors.
   • Bogus offshore banking sites can threaten to report you to your tax authority if you question their methods.
   • I recently lost my mobile phone and duly reported it missing.
   • There have been many people reporting these issues but so far the company hasn't done anything about it as of yet.
   • The Communications Authority has called on the general public to make their complaints official by reporting them to the Authority.
   • Multitudes of people are still reported missing and unaccounted for.
   • Officials at Iveagh House in Dublin are combing through an inventory of the Irish whose families have reported them missing in America.
   • It is a mistake to try to persuade them with gifts: you simply have to discover how to manipulate them, to report them to a higher authority, someone higher up the line of unitary command.
   • An entity's management should state in the financial statements which financial reporting framework they have chosen for preparation of the entity's financial statements.
   • Himmelstoss reports him to the commander, Bertink, for insubordination.
   • The first suspect is usually the person reporting the crime
   • Garnet was accused of knowing about the plot beforehand and not reporting it to the authorities. he was accused of Jesuitical equivocation.
   • There are unlikely to be any new revelations when it reports its third-quarter numbers on Tuesday.
   • He paid tribute to employees from various organisations who have been reporting cases of default to the Authority and other malpractices by their employers.
   • Don't let embarrassment or fear keep you from reporting fraud or abuse to the appropriate authorities.
   • You can take a person's loot that you are not fairly entitled to, but you can not escape the fact that others may have witnessed you and reported you to the proper authorities.
   • A ferryman to whom they gave a silver 20-shilling piece decided they must be noblemen who were going to fight a duel abroad, and reported them to the authorities.
   • As the Indigenous Peoples fought back, so the settlers in their reports to London had to play down the level of violence, for fear of scaring off potential investors and settlers.
   • Generally, accountants cannot report their clients to taxing authorities due to confidentiality and privacy legal issues.

   Synonyms

   make a complaint against, make a charge against, inform on, tattle on, accuse

   informal blow the whistle on, grass on, shop, tell on, squeal on, rat on, split on, peach on

   rare delate on
4. 1.4British with object (of a parliamentary committee chairman) formally announce that the committee has dealt with (a bill)
   〈英〉（议会委员会主席）正式宣布委员会已讨论（法案）
   the Chairman shall report the Bill to the House

   委员会主席应向下院正式宣布委员会已讨论该法案。参见 report a bill out。

   Synonyms

   announce, describe, give an account of, tell of, detail, delineate, outline
5. 1.5report something outUS (of a committee of Congress) return a bill to the legislative body for action.
   〈美〉（议会委员会）将法案交还给议会表决
   the Committee reported out the Civil Rights Bill, quicker than ever expected

   Example sentencesExamples

   • President Bush had nominated Mr. Haynes to the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals, and the Senate Judiciary Committee had reported it out to the full Senate.
   • Historically, bills have been given a three-day delay in between the time the Rules Committee reports them out and the House takes them up; that requirement has been waived on numerous occasions in recent years.
   • Despite what appeared to be widespread support for the bills, they were reported out of committee unfavorably.
   • But Jennings wanted Spacek on the committee so that his criticisms would be channeled toward constructive change, and also that he would become a party to whatever reform was reported out of the committee.
   • Johnson, as chair of the Public Works Committee, was instrumental in quickly reporting the bill out of his Committee to the Conference Committee.
   • Aside from the intrinsic dumbness of the bill itself, there is also the outrageous process by which it was reported out of the conference committee.
   • That's very important to get that over with in August, to get back in September, have the relevant committees report the legislation out.
   • From 1959 to 1973, no reclamation project authorization, national park, or public land use policy became law until Wayne Aspinall reported it out from his House Interior Committee.

2no object Present oneself formally as having arrived at a particular place or as ready to do something.

1. 2.1report back Return to work or duty after a period of absence.
   （暂离后）重返工作岗位
   hearing that there was the prospect of action with No. 8 Commando, he reported back for duty

   Example sentencesExamples

   • It had nobody on the ground in Washington, networking with legislators and their staffs, listening to the gossip, shooting the breeze - and reporting back to base.
   • Bettye and Peggy had been told to run out and get something to eat and a quick rest before reporting back for duty.
   • It has also been learned that the head of strategic development - suspended from duties pending the outcome of the inquiry into overcharging - has reported back for duty.
   • Granted a furlough in October, Wright returned home to his parents in Clayton County briefly before reporting back to the hospital on November 23.

3report tono object Be responsible to (a superior or supervisor)

1An account given of a particular matter, especially in the form of an official document, after thorough investigation or consideration by an appointed person or body.

主席的年度报告。

1. 1.1 A spoken or written description of an event or situation, especially one intended for publication or broadcasting in the media.
   （尤指通过媒体公开或传播的）报道，报告
   press reports suggested that the secret police were helping to maintain public order

   报纸报道暗示政府仍在使用秘密警察帮助维持公共秩序。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • ‘When I look at the newspapers, reports from the media, it is rarely an issue in the Japanese media,’ he said.
   • Media reports suggest Eircom does not intend to use the proceeds of any refinancing to repay equity.
   • She has investigated the events, the media reports and testimony from victims of those attacks.
   • Silverstein would not be drawn on future applications for the search engine, but media reports have suggested that the company is working on a version of the browser for mobile phones.
   • Damiano credits media reports on the many beneficial properties of tea are the primary reason for the increased demand.
   • Media reports during the week suggested that Meteor was creating tension with Lucent by offering a tender for a second equipment provider.
   • If her partner had suffered trial by media, in their reports about his being the prime suspect, his libel action allowed the papers the latitude to outline just why.
   • Conflicting reports in the U.S. media while top-notch intelligence and on the spot sources tell the story otherwise, are important to keep an eye on.
   • This is in addition to handling the media's economic news reports and requests for an analysis of the economic implications of recent events.
   • Unconfirmed media reports have suggested Vivas will launch later this month, once it signs up AIB as a shareholder and obtains regulatory approval.
   • On Thursday, six men (described in media reports as dissident republican suspects) were arrested in raids in England.
   • The political background of the former lecturer in Marxist sociology was also more complex than the media reports suggested.
   • Media reports have suggested Vivendi was unhappy with the general level of offers and was hoping to push the bidders higher.
   • Compare Bill's account of their removal from Palm Island with the voice over version from the media report of the time.
   • A European Commission transport spokesman said the Commission had no intention of limiting the height of vehicles in member states, as suggested by some newspaper reports.
   • According to US media reports, they are given sleeping pills on their return from flights, which the pilots call ‘no-go pills’.
   • Media reports at the time described Yeltsin as ‘a brash bear of a man from the Urals brought to Moscow to boost Gorbachev's reform efforts’.
   • There were also ‘friendly fire’ casualties to which many media reports made ongoing reference.
   • The pared-down macroeconomics chapters are far more in line with Bush administration thinking than press reports suggest.
   • Many of Los Tigres's songs are inspired by events in newspaper reports, or stories passed on by fans.

   Synonyms

   story, account, description

   article, piece, item, column, feature, write-up, exposé

   bulletin, communiqué, dispatch, communication
2. 1.2British A teacher's written assessment of a pupil's work, progress, and conduct, issued at the end of a term or school year.
   〈英〉（包括学业和操行评定的）学生成绩报告单
   Example sentencesExamples

   • Teachers can enter progress reports for each student and print a summary progress report when desired.
   • The teacher completes a report and returns it to the student's school counselor at the end of each grading period.
   • Along the way, I must qualify extreme principles in various ways and then challenge my students with examinations and term paper reports about my lectures.
   • It is written in the books of St Xavier in Partibus that a report of Kim's progress was forwarded at the end of each term to Colonel Creighton and to Father Victor, from whose hands duly came the money for his schooling.

   Synonyms

   assessment, evaluation, appraisal

   marks

   North American report card, grades
3. 1.3Law A detailed formal account of a case heard in a court, giving the main points in the judgement, especially as prepared for publication.
   〔律〕案情报告
   Example sentencesExamples

   • The Master of the Court makes policy decisions on investments and supervises her small but well-trained staff in administering these funds and even preparing court reports.

2A piece of information that is unsupported by firm evidence.

据传主席要辞职了。

1. 2.1dated mass noun Rumour.
   〈旧〉流言，谣传
   report has it that the beetles have now virtually disappeared

   据说那些甲虫现在实际上已绝迹了。

   Synonyms

   rumour, whisper, piece of gossip, piece of hearsay

3A sudden loud noise of or like an explosion or gunfire.

4An employee who reports to another employee.

5archaic mass noun The reputation of someone or something.

不管什么东西都是美妙而且远近闻名。