英语词汇miss lonelyhearts的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

Miss Lonelyhearts. A disparaging name for a newspaper columnist, usually a woman, who gives advice to the lost and lovelorn, typically in answer to their letters. The term is kept alive in American author Nathaniel West’s masterpiece Miss Lonelyhearts (1933) in which a male writer takes on the job of the columnist. The British call a Miss Lonelyhearts an Ag- ony Aunt or, rarely, an Agony Uncle, but these expressions haven’t much currency in the U.S. Agony column, common in Britain and the U.S., dates back to the mid-19th century, when it was a column in which people advertised for missing persons.

词汇	miss lonelyhearts
词源	Miss Lonelyhearts. A disparaging name for a newspaper columnist, usually a woman, who gives advice to the lost and lovelorn, typically in answer to their letters. The term is kept alive in American author Nathaniel West’s masterpiece Miss Lonelyhearts (1933) in which a male writer takes on the job of the columnist. The British call a Miss Lonelyhearts an Ag- ony Aunt or, rarely, an Agony Uncle, but these expressions haven’t much currency in the U.S. Agony column, common in Britain and the U.S., dates back to the mid-19th century, when it was a column in which people advertised for missing persons.
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