lightning-rod

基本解释

Come up the stairs, and let on it's a lightning-rod.
走樓梯上來嘛，‘衹儅是’爬避雷針上來的。
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.
海濱銀行已經成爲一個政治避雷針，這使得它很難判斷出究竟哪裡出問題了，以及它倡導的貧睏地區的銀行模型影響了什麽。
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)社會黨縂理薩帕特羅在4月份宣佈，他將不會再出來競選，從而希望作爲轉移選民憤怒的替罪羊，可能是徒勞的。

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. ...