有人向警察通风报信，举报有窃贼隐藏在车库里面。

Someone tipped off the police that the thief was hiding in the garage.

弗农姨父：哼，好让它给你那群变态小朋友通风报信吗？

Uncle Vernon: Harumph. So you can send secret messages to your 2 freaking little friends?

马头墙都设有不同图案的砖窗石窗，除了美观之外，更是为了通风报信，能一呼百应。

Ma Tau wall are equipped with different patterns of brick window stone window, in addition to beautiful, but also to the windy messenger, can be called.

她心想，会不会是办公室里有人向他通风报信了呢？或者……他不知怎么竟知道她不会被拒绝？

She wondered if someone from the office had tipped him off, or... did he just somehow know that she would not get turned down?

凯瑟琳对于这种怠慢表示出了孩子气的恼怒；用轻蔑来相报，如此就把我这个通风报信的人也列入她的敌人之列，记下了仇，好像她做了天大的对不起她的事似的。

Catherine evinced a child's annoyance at this neglect; repaid it with contempt, and thus enlisted my informant among her enemies, as securely as if she had done her some great wrong.