澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2011-09-17

 Cloud associated with a cold front over southwest WA is generating¹ stormy showers but high cloud stretching across the country's south is not bringing rain. In a large high means skies are clear elsewhere.

 

Taking a look around the country. Queensland would be mostly fine apart from some isolated² showers about the northeast tropics³. Strong southeasterly winds will persist⁴ about the coast north of Cooptown.

 

New South Wales will also be mostly sunny. Northwest winds will freshen in the west ahead of a late southwesterly change.

 

Victoria is in for mostly fine day. A late change will sweep across the state, bringing isolated showers and thunderstorm for southern districts.

 

Shower's increasing to rain for western Tasmania. Other parts of the state will get patchy evening rain.

 

In South Australia, a fine day apart from isolated showers for the southeast and Kangaroo Island. Hot temperatures for north and west of the state.

 

Western Australia will see some isolated stormy showers in the southwest of the state.

 

And in the northern territory, mostly sunny apart from isolated showers about the north coast.

 

And looking ahead to tomorrow for the capitals, morning drizzle⁵ clearing for Melbourne, showers and a possible storm for Perth, cloud clearing for Hobart, partly cloudy for Darwin and fine elsewhere.

1 generating   

n.发生，产生v.生（儿、女）( generate的现在分词 )；（通过物理或化学过程）发生；生成；引起

参考例句：

• There are many ways of generating a two-dimensional representation of an object. 有很多制作物体二维图的方法。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Generating functions are an ideal tool for studying sequences defined by recurrence. 母函数是研究用递推关系来确定的函数的最理想工具。 来自辞典例句

2 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。

3 tropics   

(名)热带

参考例句：

• The disease is thought to have originated in the tropics. 这种疾病据说起源于热带地区。
• I went to the tropics for the first time last year. 我去年第一次去了热带地区。

4 persist   

v.持续，存留；坚持不懈，执意

参考例句：

• The bad weather will persist all over the country.这种坏天气将在全国各地持续下去。
• His strength of will enabled him to persist.他的意志力使他能坚持下去。

5 drizzle   

v.下毛毛雨；n.毛毛雨，蒙蒙细雨

参考例句：

• The shower tailed off into a drizzle.阵雨越来越小，最后变成了毛毛雨。
• Yesterday the radio forecast drizzle,and today it is indeed raining.昨天预报有小雨，今天果然下起来了。