英语听力：澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2014-04-26

 Let's take a look at the satellite.

 

And a cold front crossing Tasmania is causing storms and gusty¹ winds. A trough over south Australia, Victoria and SNW is generating² areas of light rain. A tropical³ low is triggering⁴ showers and storms about the northern Top End. And an area of low pressure is causing showers over western WA.

 

Looking around the country.

 

And in Queensland, there'll be showers in the east and north, warm and dry in the south and west.

 

Rain and storms for inland NSW, spreading east with a cooler change in the south and west.

 

A cool change this morning in Victoria, spreading from the west, and showers in the south and east.

 

Gusty cooler change in the morning for Tasmania, showers heaviest in the south and west.

 

In SA, showers in the south, which could clear by the evening, dry and mostly sunny in the far north of the state.

 

In WA, rain in the west and south, spreading inland, hot and mostly sunny in the north.

 

Rain and storms in the north of the northern territory, dry and mostly sunny in the south.

 

Now looking ahead to tomorrow's forecast for the capital cities.

 

There's gonna be a light shower in Brisbane, possible showers for Sydney, mostly sunny for Melbourne. Sunny for Hobart, mostly sunny in Adelaide, light showers for Perth and light thunder for 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 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

3 tropical   

adj.热带的，热带的，炎热的

参考例句：

• You must grow these tropical flowers in a glasshouse.你必须把这些热带花卉种在温室里。
• This disease is widespread in tropical areas.这种疾病在热带地区蔓延很广。

4 triggering   

起动，触发，控制

参考例句：

• To set off an H-bomb, a special triggering device is required. 要爆炸氢弹，就需有一个特殊的引爆装置。
• This is triggering a second stage of new star formation. 由此触发了第二阶段新恒星的形成。