澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2011-10-15

 Thick cloud is spreading across much of eastern Australia. It's in a trough and is triggering showers and potentially severe storms. The storm is particularly affecting northern New South Wales and southeast Queensland. Cloud about the Top End is causing scattered¹ storms, mostly clear elsewhere. 

 

And taking a look at the states. 

 

In Queensland. Early patchy thundery rain across the southern tropics and the central coast. Thundery rain is expected over the southern interior. 

 

Showers and thunderstorms will develop about the Darling Down southeast coast, and Wide Bay and Burnett district. 

 

In New South Wales, partly cloudy in the west of the state. Scattered showers gradually clearing on the central parts of the coast. Isolated² showers and thunderstorms elsewhere. 

 

There is also the chance of thunderstorms for Victoria's eastern districts this afternoon. Fine over the far northwest. Isolated showers elsewhere. 

 

In Tasmania, it will be cloudy with areas of rain and isolated thunderstorms about the north and west. Highland³ snowfalls to 1,100 meters later in the day. 

 

Isolated showers about South Australia's agricultural area are becoming scattered about the southern coasts and ranges during the morning and early afternoon. Gradually contracting southwards. 

 

WA can expect isolated showers in areas of drizzle⁴ on the coast between Albany and Elizabeth Bay. This will clear by the afternoon. 

 

In the Northern Territory, it will be sunny and cooler in the Alice Springs, north of the Alice. Isolated showers and storms can be expected in the afternoon and evening. 

 

Looking ahead to tomorrow, fine and sunny in most of the capitals.

1 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。

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 highland   

n.(pl.)高地，山地

参考例句：

• The highland game is part of Scotland's cultural heritage.苏格兰高地游戏是苏格兰文化遗产的一部分。
• The highland forests where few hunters venture have long been the bear's sanctuary.这片只有少数猎人涉险的高山森林，一直都是黑熊的避难所。

4 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。