澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2009-08-15

On Intoxicating¹. By homeway2000

Hello, Kirsty Heenan with the national weather.

Cloud pushing into Tasmania along a trough, fully² extending to South Australia and Victoria, bring in a few showers. While cloud building over the southeastern WA is causing showers and strong winds

Queensland can expect to a fine day apart from some early fog above the east coast and frost over the southeastern interior. Light to moderate winds over most of this state.

East South Wales can also expect widespread morning fog before a fine and clear day. Very warm in the far west with strengthening westerly winds.

Isolated³ showers of Victoria’s southwest will stay in mostly fine elsewhere.

To Tasmania, weather will be isolated showers in the west, increasing over the rest of this day during the morning.

A dry and warm day in most parts of South Australia with strong gusty⁴ northerly winds moving across the west in the late afternoon. Possible shower is developing near Kangaroo Islands.

Expected thunderstorms with possible hail in the southwest land division, but they should ease before contracting to the far southeast in the afternoon.

And it looks like a mostly fine day in the Territory apart from some early fog in the north. Probably cloudy in the Alice with the chance of light drizzle⁵ patches.

And checking conditions for the rest of the weekend now, showers in most of these southern capitals, partly cloudy in Brisbane, and a clear and sunny day for Darwin with the top of 31 degrees.

1 intoxicating   

a. 醉人的,使人兴奋的

参考例句：

• Power can be intoxicating. 权力能让人得意忘形。
• On summer evenings the flowers gave forth an almost intoxicating scent. 夏日的傍晚，鲜花散发出醉人的芳香。

2 fully   

adv.完全地，全部地，彻底地；充分地

参考例句：

• The doctor asked me to breathe in,then to breathe out fully.医生让我先吸气，然后全部呼出。
• They soon became fully integrated into the local community.他们很快就完全融入了当地人的圈子。

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。

4 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？

5 drizzle   

v.下毛毛雨；n.毛毛雨，蒙蒙细雨

参考例句：

• The shower tailed off into a drizzle.阵雨越来越小，最后变成了毛毛雨。
• Yesterday the radio forecast drizzle,and today it is indeed raining.昨天预报有小雨，今天果然下起来了。