英语听力：澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2013-09-07

 The big front system is generating¹ a lot of clouds but any light showers. And most of the really cold air is where south of the continent. A low pressure system over western Australia is going to bring some heavy falls tomorrow. The Tasman high has drift a little bit further north so there are strong winds on the east coast contracting to the tropics² where there’s been frequent showers. 

   

So to the election day forecast. And more showers along the Queensland coast,especially in the north,25 expected in Mackay,fine and mostly sunny otherwise,perfect although hot weather for the Bunda for raises 33 degrees. A warm day in eastern and northern parts of the New South Wales.Burke heading for 33 too. Some isolated³ showers to south with 19 in Wollogogo. Cool for Victoria,only 14 for Ballarat. 

   

There’ll be some isolated showers about southern and mountain districts. And some scatter⁴ showers near the coast,clearing later in the day. In Tasmania,some showers to the western,far south during the day with snow about 800 meters. Just 12 expected in Strahan. 

   

Isolated showers about the southeast coast of south Australia,clearing later,some thunder in the far west. 16 in Mentgambia but hot 32 in to the north. In western Australia,showers and storms over the southern quarter, 21 figure Apla and perth,fine to the North. But partly cloudy over the territory,some isolated showers expected in the northeast. 32 the top for Darwin.

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 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。

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 scatter   

vt.撒，驱散，散开；散布/播；vi.分散，消散

参考例句：

• You pile everything up and scatter things around.你把东西乱堆乱放。
• Small villages scatter at the foot of the mountain.村庄零零落落地散布在山脚下。