lightning-rod

基本解释

Come up the stairs, and let on it's a lightning-rod.
走楼梯上来嘛，‘只当是’爬避雷针上来的。
That ShoreBank had become such a political lightning-rod makes it harder to judge precisely where it went wrong, and the implications for the model of banking in poor areas that it pioneered.
海滨银行已经成为一个政治避雷针，这使得它很难判断出究竟哪里出问题了，以及它倡导的贫困地区的银行模型影响了什么。
José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, the Socialist prime minister, announced in April that he would not stand again, hoping, probably vainly, to save his party by acting as a lightning-rod for voter fury.
(工人)社会党总理萨帕特罗在4月份宣布，他将不会再出来竞选，从而希望作为转移选民愤怒的替罪羊，可能是徒劳的。

For all its nervousness, the Chinese leadership is a collective affair: no hated Mubarak or Qaddafi figure serves as a lightning-rod for discontent.
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She now has a party, One Nation, which has turned itself into a lightning-rod for a populist, right-wing backlash from rural and small-town Australia (see article).
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A lightning rod is the same as a lightning conductor
If you say that someone is a lightning rod for something, you mean that they attract that thing to themselves. ...