British EnglishBrETCN someone who writes an agonycolumn 知心阿姨〔“为读者解忧”专栏的撰稿人〕
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agony aunt• Claire Rayner is a novelist, broadcaster and agony aunt.• Being agony aunt was tricky and probably quite beyond her.• Then he sat down and typed a letter to every agony aunt he had ever heard of.• While writing her agony aunt column, she remainedbusy as a reporter, interviewingfigures including Margaret Thatcher.• I am still friends with my ex-husband who takes it on himself to be my personalagony aunt.• He hated playing agony aunt but he couldn't afford to have Hirschfeldt falling to pieces.• In fact they would be just as likely to turn to the agony auntpages of a magazine.