lightning bolt

名词 n.

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名词 n.

A single, visible discharge of lightning.

— Shortly after dinner one day — it was a hot summer afternoon — a very severe thunderstorm broke out over the city and after it had lasted some ten to fifteen minutes an exceptionally bright lightning bolt flashed through the air followed immediately by a terrific crash of thunder.
A conventional representation of a lightning bolt as a zigzag line.
A conventional representation of a lightning bolt in heraldry or in artistic depictions of thunder gods, for example as a winged and barbed torch.
Something that shocks or energizes, especially something that does so suddenly. figuratively

— In this sense there was an uncomfortable similarity between the lettre de cachet, the “lightning bolt of despotism,” and the people that judged, not like a court of law, but like a force of nature.

lightning bolts plural