The Chicago Sun Times reportedly called Mrs. Lederer a few days after the competition ended.

据称《芝加哥太阳报》在比赛结束后几天就给莱德尔太太打了电话。

Lederer said the danger is that our dependence on electronic gadgets is increasingly being perceived as normal.

莱德尔说其中的危险是，我们对电子设备的依赖越来越被视为常态化。

Eppie Lederer's daughter, Margo Howard, is an advice columnist as well.

爱贝·莱德尔的女儿玛戈·霍华德也是一名建议专栏作家。

This was the kind of advice column that Esther Lederer wrote. She wrote it under the name of Ann Landers.

埃丝特·莱德尔写的就是这种建议专栏。她在该专栏的笔名为安·兰德斯。

Another letter was about a Roman Catholic Church issue. So Eppie Lederer talked to the president of a famous Catholic university, Notre Dame.

另一封信是关于罗马天主教会的问题。所以爱贝·莱德尔和一所著名天主教大学圣母大学的校长进行了交谈。

For years Eppie Lederer was happy to stay home and raise her child while her husband's business grew. They lived in Wisconsin at first.

多年来，爱贝·莱德尔开心地在家里带孩子，而她的丈夫则经营着生意。起初，他们住在威斯康星州。

Eppie Lederer decided that this was really a legal question so she sought help from a friend who knew about the law.

爱贝·莱德尔认为这是一个法律问题，所以她从一位懂法的朋友那寻求帮助。

Eppie Lederer owned the rights to the Ann Landers name and did not want it to be used after she died.

爱贝·莱德尔获得了安·兰德斯的笔名权，在她去世后，这个笔名就不再使用了。

Although having a thousand Facebook friends may be perceived as equivalent to having a thousand real, authentic friendships, Lederer said in reality it is not so.

尽管在脸书上有1000个好友可能也差不多意味着有1000份真正的友谊，莱德尔说事实上并非如此。

Eppie Friedman was in college when she met Jules Lederer. She left school to marry him in nineteen thirty-nine. Mister Lederer was a businessman.

爱贝·弗里德曼在大学时期遇到了朱尔斯·莱德尔。1939年，她辍学和他结婚了。莱德尔先生是一位商人。

Mrs. Lederer used the help of powerful friends to decide the best advice. For example, one letter writer asked about a tree that dropped nuts on her property.

莱德尔太太在一些有影响力的朋友的帮助下给出了最好的建议。例如，一位写信者的问题是关于一棵树上结出的坚果掉在了自己家院里。

Mrs. Lederer did not study to become a newspaper writer. In fact, she did not finish her university studies at Morningside College, in Sioux City, Iowa.

莱德尔太太为成为一名报纸作家而进行专门的学习。其实，她都没有完成莫宁赛德学院的大学课程，这所大学位于爱荷华州苏城。

In January, two thousand two, doctors discovered that Eppie Lederer had multiple myeloma. It is a very serious form of cancer of the bone marrow.

2002年1月，医生发现爱贝·莱德尔患上了多发性骨髓瘤。这是一种非常严重的骨髓癌症。

Eppie Lederer heard about the competition from a friend at the paper and decided to enter. She was one of thirty people who sought the job.

爱贝·莱德尔从一个报社朋友那听说了这个比赛并决定参加比赛。她是三十个参加比赛的人之一。

Mrs. Lederer later said that one Sun-Times editor helped her harden herself to those stories. He said she must separate herself from her readers and their problems.

之后莱德尔太太表示《芝加哥太阳报》的一位编辑帮助她在面对那些故事时变得更加坚强。他说她必须将自己和读者以及读者的问题分割开来。