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lightning rod

避雷针,闪电棒,避暑针,雷击棒

Related Words

ground地面,地,场地,土地lightning arrester避雷器,避雷针lightning conductor避雷针,避雷器,雷电导体,导雷器

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : 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.

Synonyms & Antonyms

nounprotection from lightning strike
Synonyms
ground地面,地,场地,土地lightning arrester避雷器,避雷针lightning conductor避雷针,避雷器,雷电导体,导雷器

Examples

  • 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.

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