澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2011-08-07

A band of clouds stretching from southern Queensland through to New South Wales will bring stormy showers. Patchy cloud over South Australia, New South Wales, Victoria and Tasmania will generate scattered¹ showers.

Some isolated² showers about the Queensland east coast today, tending scattered along the north tropical coast. Showers and isolated thunderstorms over the southern interior.

In New South Wales, some isolated thunderstorms across the central and northern inland. Fine in the northwest, showers elsewhere.

Some scattered showers over the north of Victoria and near the coast. Isolated thunderstorms later in the day.

Patchy rain about Tasmania's west becoming widespread about the east with heavy falls. Isolated thunderstorms about the northeast and Bass³ Strait.

Scattered showers and isolated thunderstorms for South Australia with hail possible over the Mary and southeast districts. Increasing showers around the ranges, south of Auger⁴ later in the day.

Western Australia can expect some isolated showers in the southwestern district. Rain areas will develop near the central west coast this afternoon.

And in the Northern Territory, some isolated light showers about the north and northeast coasts with a chance of early morning showers on the west coast.

And checking tomorrow’s weather briefly⁵, there’ll be showers across most of the capitals. Mostly fine and sunny for Brisbane; rain at times in the Hobart and mostly sunny in Darwin.

1 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。

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 bass   

n.男低音(歌手)；低音乐器；低音大提琴

参考例句：

• He answered my question in a surprisingly deep bass.他用一种低得出奇的声音回答我的问题。
• The bass was to give a concert in the park.那位男低音歌唱家将在公园中举行音乐会。

4 auger   

n.螺丝钻，钻孔机

参考例句：

• We make a hole in the ice with an auger.我们用螺旋钻在冰上钻洞。
• Already the Snowblast's huge auger blades were engorging snow.扬雪车上庞大的钻头叶片在开始大量吞进积雪。

5 briefly   

adv.简单地，简短地

参考例句：

• I want to touch briefly on another aspect of the problem.我想简单地谈一下这个问题的另一方面。
• He was kidnapped and briefly detained by a terrorist group.他被一个恐怖组织绑架并短暂拘禁。