英和和英

名詞

agony column (複数形 agony columns)

1. (chiefly UK) A column of a newspaper which contains advertisements relating to lost relatives and friends and other personal matters.
   • 2005, Tim Lindsey, Chinese Indonesians: Remembering, Distorting, Forgetting, page 165:

     Underlying the discussion of values in the magazine's “agony” columns is a theme of changing values, and we see a society aware of the difference between traditional and modern values and beginning to move away — albeit to a small degree — from traditional attitudes and behaviour.