英语听力：澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2014-03-01

 There is a potential of a tropical cyclone¹ developing by late in the weekend. It's sitting in the southern parts of the Solomon Sea,ah,sorry,the Solomon Island. It's showing a potential of moving towards the Queensland coast by the middle of next week. But through the weekend, it's this trough in New South Wales. It's predicted to bring some potentially moderate to heavy falls. Similar story through part of the Northern territory.

 

There were also onshore winds at the moment along the Queensland coast. They'll trigger² some isolated³ showers. But a potential of some thunderstorms above the central and southwest, but those falls are generally isolated and light. The heavy falls will be up and around the gulf⁴ country. 

 

Now it's been heading to New South Wales central district likely to see the heaviest of the falls. Some patchy showers and thunderstorms into the south and isolated showers up across the northeastern districts.

 

For Victoria, we could see some isolated thunderstorms and showers also creeping into the northern areas. And a potential of an isolated shower above far southern parts of the coast, but falls in Victoria are expected to be quite light and patchy. 

 

Just a late shower moving into the southeast corner of Tasmania. There's a far moves out of the sea, but they are also going to be quite light and isolated. 

 

Good dry conditions for most of South Australia. A few showers above far northeastern corner. It'll be dry and hot day across the southern parts of Western Australia. In fact, the only rainfall. Some isolated showers in the Kimberley, but a potential of heavy falls through the northern half of the territory.

1 cyclone   

n.旋风，龙卷风

参考例句：

• An exceptionally violent cyclone hit the town last night.昨晚异常猛烈的旋风吹袭了那个小镇。
• The cyclone brought misery to thousands of people.旋风给成千上万的人带来苦难。

2 trigger   

n.触发器，板机，制滑机；v.触发（事件）

参考例句：

• His index finger tightened on the trigger but then relaxed again.他的食指扣住扳机，然后又松开了。
• He pulled the trigger but the gun didn't go off.他打了一枪，没有发火。

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 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。