澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2011-03-13

 Now, let’s take a look at the weather now. And cloud over northern Australia is causing heavy thundery rain, leading to flooding. More cloud over eastern Queensland is bringing showers and storms. 

 

To the states, in Queensland, there’ll be heavy rain and thunderstorms over the gulf¹ country and the northwest region. There will be some scattered² showers and isolated³ storms over the remainder of the tropics. 

 

New South Wales can expect some patchy rain and thunderstorms mainly in the eastern and southern regions. It will be warm and humid throughout the rest of the state. 

 

There’ll be scattered showers and thunderstorms in the eastern and northern part of Victoria. 

 

Tasmania can expect some isolated rain about the north and western regions in the morning with the chance of some afternoon showers over most of the state. 

 

In South Australia, there will be isolated showers and thunderstorms in the southern region. There’re chances of some patchy light rain over the remainder of the state. It will be a sunny day in Perth with heavy rain and thunderstorms in the Kimberley. But it will be warm and windy in the west.

 

And in the Northern Territory, there will be some isolated afternoon showers and storms in the Alice Springs. 

 

Checking tomorrow’s forecast with the major cities, rainy in Canberra, Sydney, Brisbane, mostly fine in Adelaide and Hobart, sunny for Perth with a top of 35 degrees.

1 gulf   

n.海湾；深渊，鸿沟；分歧，隔阂

参考例句：

• The gulf between the two leaders cannot be bridged.两位领导人之间的鸿沟难以跨越。
• There is a gulf between the two cities.这两座城市间有个海湾。

2 scattered   

adj.分散的，稀疏的；散步的；疏疏落落的

参考例句：

• Gathering up his scattered papers,he pushed them into his case.他把散乱的文件收拾起来，塞进文件夹里。

3 isolated   

adj.与世隔绝的

参考例句：

• His bad behaviour was just an isolated incident. 他的不良行为只是个别事件。
• Patients with the disease should be isolated. 这种病的患者应予以隔离。