澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2010-04-11

Hello, Claire Aird with the National Weather.

Taking a look at the satellite picture first, and widespread cloud across the interior¹ in a broad trough is generating² patchy rain and storms. Scattered³ cloud forming over the southeast is bringing a burst of heavy showers in Tasmania and coast of Victoria. Cloud across the tropics⁴ is also causing a few storms.

To the states now, and Queensland will be cloudy today with rain spreading across the southern and central interior.

Showers are forecast for New South Wales, with possible thunderstorms along the north coast. Some pockets of sunshine along the coast and in the northwest.

A cool and cloudy day for Victoria with isolated⁵ showers on and south of the ranges. Early snow showers to 1,400 metres over the Alps but fine and mainly sunny in the northwest.

Tasmania will see some rain and isolated thunderstorms mainly above the west and north. Snowfall's developing above the highest peaks.

Scattered showers are forecast for South Australia and isolated early morning thunder, possible hail⁶ in the southeast.

A mostly sunny day for WA with some scattered showers, mainly in the lower half.

In the north, scattered storms in much of the state with heavy falls around the Alice Springs District.

And a quick look at tomorrow in the capitals, a shower or two is forcast (for) Brisbane, Melbourne and Hobart. Fine and sunny in Sydney. Partly cloudy in Adelaide and there is an afternoon storm forecast for Darwin.

1 interior   

adj.在内的，内部的，内地的，国内的；n.内部

参考例句：

• There is water in the interior of the cave.在山洞的内部有水。
• They went into the interior room.他们进了内室。

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 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。

4 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。

5 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。

6 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。