lightning arrester

避雷器,避雷针

Definitions

n.名词 noun

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- : a device for preventing damage to radio, telephonic, or other electric equipment from lightning or other high-voltage currents, using spark gaps to carry the current to the ground without passing through the device.

as inlightning rod

Synonyms

Should lightning strike and Hillary Clinton forgoes a presidential run, Democrats have a nominee in waiting.
Second, Michelle served as a lightning rod in the sense of drawing attacks away from other reform groups.
He made whatever was going on his own, and with such lightning speed you stopped concentrating.
There were flashes of lightning outside and the rumble of thunder.
Improvements in lightning tracking help scientists know where to send aircraft to look for fires.
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.
Like lightning he turned and seized by the wrist a man who had already opened the bag and laid hold of some of its contents.
His only worry at the time lay in the dark sky above and the blue-white stabs of lightning that promised an electrical storm.
Another lightning flash blinded the girls and the thunder following fairly deafened them for the moment.