英语听力：澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2014-05-31

 Let’s take a look at the satellite image. A low over the south of the country is bringing heavy rains and storm across South Australia, Western New South Wales and Victoria. Moist onshore winds are directing coastal¹ showers along the eastern seaboard. 

 

Looking around the country, in Queensland, isolated² showers in the east and far south of the state. Mostly clear and warm over the interior. In New South Wales, showers and thunderstorms spreading from the west. Warm in the north of the state. Mild in the south.

 

Rain and storms across most of Victoria, heaviest in the north. Mild temperatures and variable winds. 

 

Showers in northeast Tasmania, dry and mostly sunny elsewhere of the state. 

 

In South Australia, rain and storms in the south and east of the state. Dry and mostly sunny elsewhere.

 

Isolated coastal showers in the southern parts of Western Australia, dry elsewhere.

 

In the Top End, coastal showers in the north and eastern parts of the territory, dry in the south.

 

And looking ahead to tomorrow’s forecast for the capitals, possible showers in Brisbane and Adelaide. Rain in Sydney, Canberra and Melbourne. Cloudy in Hobart. Developing showers in Perth and it should be mostly sunny in the Top End.

1 coastal   

adj.海岸的，沿海的，沿岸的

参考例句：

• The ocean waves are slowly eating away the coastal rocks.大海的波浪慢慢地侵蚀着岸边的岩石。
• This country will fortify the coastal areas.该国将加强沿海地区的防御。

2 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。