澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2014-06-21

 Let'stake a look at the satellite. Moist¹ onshore winds feeding a weak trough over Eastern New South Wales and Queenslandare triggeringisolated showers, a trough and low are bringing showersto SA, Victoria and northern Tasmania. And Northwesterly wind ahead of a front are causing showers overthe southwest of Western Australia. Now looking around the country and inQueensland isolated² showers in the east and southeast, light winds andclear skies in the west. To NSW, patchy showersin the east and south, snowon the Alps and mostly sunny in the north and west. There will bescattered light showers throughout Victoria and more snow on the Alps there. To Tasmania, morning fog andfrost, then a cool day with some isolated showers in the north. SA can expectsome showers in the agriculture areas, dry and mostly sunny in the north. Towestern Australia, windy with showers and storms in the southwest mostly dry innorthern and central parts and in the top end, it will be mostly sunny and dryin the south of the territory, fresh east to south easterly winds in the north. Now lookingahead to tomorrow's forecast and mostly sunny in Brisbane and Sydney. Morningfog for Canberra and Hobart, partly cloudy in Melbourne, isolated showers inAdelaide and Perth and dry and sunny day in Darwin.

 

 

Trough: a long narrow region³ of low air pressure between two regions⁴ of higher pressure

Alps: is the highest mountain range in Australia.

 

1 moist   

adj.潮湿的，湿润的；(果物)多汁的；[医]有分泌物的，湿性的；n.潮湿

参考例句：

• There were no windows to admit moist atmosphere to enter.没有窗户使潮湿的空气进入室内。
• Winds from the sea are usually moist.海风通常是潮湿的。

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。

3 region   

n.地区，地带，区域；范围，幅度

参考例句：

• The students went to study the geology of that region.学生们去研究那个地区的地质情况。
• It is unusual to see snow in this region.这个地区难得见到雪。

4 regions   

n.地区( region的名词复数 )；[数学]区域；（艺术、科学等的）领域；行政区

参考例句：

• A flying doctor service operates in remote regions. 在偏远地区有飞行医生服务。
• More powers are gradually being devolved to the regions. 正逐步向地方下放更多的权力。 来自《简明英汉词典》