澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2013-07-13

  Let's take a look at the satellite. Low pressure system is tracking east across the country bringing heavy rain and gusty¹ winds to South Australia, western Victoria and later Southern New South Wales. Onshore winds are maintaining showers on the Queensland coast while the rest of eastern Australia's states stays dry. 

 

Looking around the country. Queensland will stay fine and sunny in the west. Isolated³ showers are on the coast.  Morning fog in the eastern NSW with patchy rain extending through the southern and central inland later today. Victoria can expect area of rain extending from west to central districts during the day. Light patchy fog will reach the east later this afternoon. Some patchy drizzles⁴ are around the southern and eastern Tasmania with rain developing in far northwest later today. Rain over most of the South Australia more widespread over southern agricultural areas.Isolate² thunderstorms in the west with fresh and gusty wind throughout. Showers and thunderstorms in Western Australia. Storms may bring strong winds and hail⁵. And Territory is warm and dry with high fire danger in the north. 

 

Looking ahead to tomorrow's forecast for capital cities. Possible showers in Brisbane. Increasing cloud in Sydney.Rain for Canberra, Melbourne and Hobart. A shower too for Adelaide. Possible shower in Perth and sunny in Darwin. 

1 gusty   

adj.起大风的

参考例句：

• Weather forecasts predict more hot weather,gusty winds and lightning strikes.天气预报预测高温、大风和雷电天气将继续。
• Why was Candlestick Park so windy and gusty? 埃德尔斯蒂克公园里为什么会有那么多的强劲阵风？

2 isolate   

vt.使孤立，隔离

参考例句：

• Do not isolate yourself from others.不要把自己孤立起来。
• We should never isolate ourselves from the masses.我们永远不能脱离群众。

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。

4 drizzles   

蒙蒙细雨，毛毛雨( drizzle的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• "Grain lain" day-bringing gentle drizzles-was not far off. “谷雨”节一天近一天了。 来自汉英文学 - 春蚕
• It drizzles sometimes, moistening the thirsty fields lightly and selflessly. 它大多是毛毛细雨，轻柔而又无私地滋润着干涸的大地。

5 hail   

n.雹，一阵；vi.下雹；vt.高呼，为...喝彩

参考例句：

• Hail fell with such violence that it broke windows.冰雹猛落，把玻璃窗也砸破了。
• The people lined the streets to hail the returning heroes.人们夹道欢迎凯旋的英雄们。