agent provocateur

noun

1. （受雇于政府，怂恿政治团体人士犯法以便将之逮捕的）密探，坐探
   a person who is employed by a government to encourage people in political groups to do sth illegal so that they can be arrested

1. N-COUNT （受雇于政府或警方，怂恿某些团体犯法以趁机逮捕或打压他们的）密探，坐探，卧底
   An agent provocateur is a person who is employed by the government or the police to encourage certain groups of people to break the law, so they can arrest them or make them lose public support.
   1. Agents provocateurs may seek to discredit the opposition.
      密探可能会力求败坏反对派的名声。

1. Agents provocateurs may seek to discredit the opposition.
   密探可能会力求败坏反对派的名声。
2. It is no ground for the exercise of discretion to exclude that the evidence was obtained as a result of the activities of an agent provocateur.
   证据是由挑拨者的行为取得，并非行使酌情权剔除的理由。
3. Enochian knowledge suggests regular cataclysmic changes act as an evolutionary agent provocateur to quicken the resident life forms to the next evolutionary phase, prior to exodus from the womb planet.
   伊诺克的知识让人想去这些经常的大洪水变化担当了一进化的密探，加速居住生命形态到下一个领先从发源地行星离去的进化的阶段。

noun

1. a secret agent who incites suspected persons to commit illegal acts

   Synonym:    provocateur