advice columnist

英语

词源

advice column +‎ -ist

名词

advice columnist (复数 advice columnists)

1. 一些定期在报纸上写问答专栏的作者
   • 1984, Hilarie N. Staton, Think and Write, Good Year Books (ISBN 9780673180285), page 115:

     The columns consist of letters from men and women with problems, followed by brief answers from the advice columnist. The letters are often filled with emotion.

   • 2006, Alecia T. Devantier, Carol A. Turkington, Extraordinary Jobs in Media, Infobase Publishing (ISBN 9781438111773), page 1:

     Ann Landers, who sometimes wrote her columns from her bathtub, called herself “the general manager of the world,” which pretty much describes the types of questions an advice columnist might be called upon to answer.

   • 2007, Roberta Isleib, Deadly Advice, Penguin (ISBN 9780425214749)

     Margaret Maron, author of Winter's Child "A really plummy mystery, flawlessly plotted, that I especially loved because the heroine is an advice columnist — and a good one!"

   • 2017, David Gudelunas, Confidential to America: Newspaper Advice Columns and Sexual Education, Routledge (ISBN 9781351298506)

     Readers, at least contemporary ones, are aware that writing to an advice columnist is an odd place to turn for help. They didn't doubt, however, that people still wrote to advice columns.

同义词

• agony aunt (非正式，英国)