- 看过 lightning rod 的人也看了 :
- ground
- lightning arrester
- lightning conductor
lightning rod 的定义
- a rodlike conductor installed to divert lightning away from a structure by providing a direct path to the ground.
- a person or thing that attracts and absorbs powerful and especially negative or hostile feelings, opinions, etc., thereby diverting such feelings from other targets: The unpopular supervisor served as a lightning rod for the criticism that should have been aimed at management.
lightning rod 近义词
protection from lightning strike
lightning rod 的近义词 3 个
更多lightning rod例句
- Controversy followed Reed, often a golf lightning rod nicknamed “Captain America,” after Team USA lost to Europe at Le Golf National in France.
- Ricardo Salles, the Brazilian environment minister who became a lightning rod for anger over deforestation in the Amazon rainforest, resigned Wednesday after allegations he obstructed a federal investigation into illegal logging.
- The board refused to accept its role as the company’s lightning rod by kicking the decision back to Facebook.
- The bill has become a lightning rod for Republican opposition, spurring claims that it is a partisan attempt to rewrite federal election laws in Democrats’ favor.
- I don't know why he's singled out, but every time he just ends up being the lightning rod for my brothers' dirty jokes and my dad and uncle's drunken nicknames.
- Should lightning strike and Hillary Clinton forgoes a presidential run, Democrats have a nominee in waiting.
- So I asked the driver to honk the horn, which he does, and Rod looks over.
- And of course, Rod, being Rod, goes for it a hundred percent; his mouth drops open and he says, ‘What?’
- Rod Stewart and Diane Sawyer This is just highly entertaining.
- Creator Rod Serling was compelled by the need “not to just entertain but to enlighten.”
- The left heel followed like lightning, and the right paw also slipped, letting the bear again fall heavily on the ice below.
- Spite, however, of punishments and prohibitions the use of tobacco spread with the rapidity of lightning.
- And there shall come forth a rod out of the root of Jesse, and a flower shall rise up out of his root.
- A connecting rod worked a balance-beam, which worked the air-pump, feed-pump, and plug-rod for moving the valves.
- A piece of iron sticking out from the cross-head carried the plug-rod for working the gear-handles.