英语听力：澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2013-12-07

 A lower trough over WA is generating showers and potentially severe thunderstorms. Southwesterlies are generating occasional showers in southern Victoria and Tasmania. A low pressure system is causing thundery showers in the tropics. 

 

Looking around the country.

 

Queensland will be mostly fine with some scattered¹ showers above the central and northeast coasts. 

 

Fine and mostly sunny in New South Wales. 

 

In Victoria, the southern coast and ranges will have some morning showers and drizzle² ahead of a fine and mostly sunny afternoon. 

 

Isolated³ showers in the south of Tasmania clearing in the afternoon.

 

To South Australia, possible isolated showers near the western border this afternoon. 

 

Western Australia can expect showers and thunderstorms over central and eastern parts of the state. And in the southwest, heavy falls are possible in the Kimberley. 

 

And in the Northern Territory, isolated showers and storms above the west and north.

 

Looking ahead now to tomorrow's forecast for the capital cities. Fine in Brisbane, Sydney and Canberra. A possible shower in Melbourne. Afternoon rain for Hobart with chance of a shower or storm in Adelaide. Sunny in Perth and an afternoon storm for Darwin.

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 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。

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。