英语听力：澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2014-04-05

 A broad low-pressure system over the north is generating¹ showers and storms over Western Australia and the Northern Territory. A high is striking² moist onshore winds and showers over northern Queensland. Troughs over southern Western Australia and east Victoria are causing some rain. 

 

Let's take a look around the country.

 

Isolated³ showers along Queensland's central and northern coast. Hot in the west with a cool change in the southeast.

 

Showers in east and north New South Wales. Warm and mostly dry in the west.

 

More rain for eastern Victoria. Mostly dry in the west.

 

Cloudy but dry throughout Tasmania with cool conditions in the south.

 

South Australia will be warm and mostly sunny with some showers and thunder in the north.

 

To Western Australia where there will be showers and storms through the southwest to the northeast. Mostly sunny in the northwest.

 

And the Northern Territory will be very warm throughout with some showers and storms in the south and north.

 

Looking ahead to tomorrow's forecast for the capitals: thunderstorms in Brisbane, the chance of rain in Sydney, sunny in Melbourne, mostly sunny in Hobart, Adelaide and Perth, and late thunderstorms in 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 striking   

adj.显著的，惹人注目的，容貌出众的

参考例句：

• There is a striking difference between Jane and Mary.简和玛丽之间有显著的差异。
• What is immediately striking is how resourceful the children are.最令人注目的是孩子们的机智聪明。

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。