经济学人的写作技巧之语气篇

经济学人往往在语气助词的使用上，非常的灵活，多种语气混合使用。以下例子将分析经济学人在语气方面的各项使用。

一、段落内与陈述性语气做强烈对比

THE summer holidays have just begun， but it is a busy morning at Cadoxton Primary School， in Barry， an industrial town in Wales. It runs a summer programme for hard-up 【adj.〈口〉缺少；急需网络手头紧；经济拮据；经济困难】children， providing meals and activities over the holidays. As youngsters run laughing and screaming into the school cafeteria for breakfast， their parents saunter【美：['sntr]英：['s：nt（r）]v.悠闲地走；漫步；闲逛n.闲荡；混日子】 out， some visibly relieved. Just three days into the six-week school holidays one beleaguered【饱受批评的；处于困境的；受到围困（或围攻）的】 mother says her nine-year-old daughter has already asked five times to go bowling. Without the school’s help， she says， “it would be a long and expensive six weeks”.

【Summertime blues Long summer holidays are bad for children， especially the poor

Many parents also find them a struggle  Aug 9th 2018| BARRY】

前半段几乎都是陈述性语气，最后一句变成了虚拟语气，形成和事实的强烈对比。（剩余2110字）