澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2012-08-11

 Let's take a look at the satellite, a deep low over the Tasman Sea is bringing damaging winds, dangerous surf conditions and showers onto the New South Wales coast, a large high over the Bight is directing scatterred showers over Victoria.

 

Looking around the states, it'll be dry and cool across Queensland today, there'll be strong winds over the southern gulf¹.

 

Isolated² showers along the coast and the far southern ranges of New South Wales, the Barrington Tops and Alps can expect snow, fine and mostly sunny in the rest of the state.

 

A cold morning for Victoria, then mostly sunny in the west and north, the south and east of the state can expect a wet and windy day.

 

There'll be isolated showers across most of Tasmania today, except in the north of the state.

 

There is a chance of isolated showers over the central and southeast in disctricts of South Australia, fine elsewhere³, in the west, it'll be mostly sunny and warm with cloud increasing throughout the day.

 

Cool in the south of the Northern Territory today, but otherwise dry and sunny.

 

Looking ahead to tomorrow, and a shower or two in Sydney and Melbourne, rain developing in Perth, fine in Brisbane, Adelaide and Darwin, and partly cloudy in Hobart and Canberra.

1 gulf   

n.海湾；深渊，鸿沟；分歧，隔阂

参考例句：

• The gulf between the two leaders cannot be bridged.两位领导人之间的鸿沟难以跨越。
• There is a gulf between the two cities.这两座城市间有个海湾。

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 elsewhere   

adv.在别处，到别处

参考例句：

• Our favourite restaurant was full so we had to go elsewhere.我们最喜欢去的那家饭店客满了，因此不得不改去别处。
• I have half a mind to move elsewhere.我有点想搬到别处去。