ivory tower

英 [ˌaɪvəri ˈtaʊə(r)]

美 [ˌaɪvəri ˈtaʊər]

n.  象牙塔(指逃避问题、脱离现实的小天地)

牛津词典

noun

• 象牙塔（指逃避问题、脱离现实的小天地）
  a place or situation where you are separated from the problems and practical aspects of normal life and therefore do not have to worry about or understand them
  1. academics living in ivory towers
     生活在象牙塔中的学者

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 象牙塔(指脱离实际生活的小天地)
  If you describe someone as living in anivory tower, you mean that they have no knowledge or experience of the practical problems of everyday life.
  1. They don't really, in their ivory towers, understand how pernicious drug crime is.
     他们身处象牙塔中,并不真正了解毒品犯罪的危害有多大。
  2. ...ivory-tower intellectuals.
     象牙塔中的知识分子

英英释义

noun

• a state of mind that is discussed as if it were a place
  1. he lived in the ivory tower of speculation
  2. they viewed universities as ivory towers

双语例句

• Perhaps he should have stepped down from the ivory tower and addressed concrete issues.
  或许，他本应该走出象牙塔，来解决更实际的问题。
• He saw he should no longer shut himself up in his ivory tower.
  他认识到不应再把自己关在象牙塔里。
• Xiao Yu is like a princess who lives in an ivory tower.
  小玉就象个一直生活在象牙之塔里的公主。
• Ivory tower assets are often provided too late to be of value to their intended audience or have far too much baggage to be of use in practice.
  象牙塔资产经常提供得太迟了，对其预期的受众不能产生价值，或者有太多的冗余，在实践中没有用。
• Isolated in their ivory tower of learning, they kept their distance.
  他们将自己孤立在学习的象牙塔中，与别人保持距离。
• With the development of our society, the campus no longer is an "Ivory Tower".
  随着社会的进步，大学校园不再是一个象牙塔。
• The professor be shut up in the ivory tower all the time.
  教授整天在象牙塔里呆着。
• JSF1 was developed in an ivory tower, and the results, arguably, were less than spectacular.
  JSF1就是在象牙塔中开发的，因此，它的出现并没有引起太大的轰动。
• Living in an ivory tower, Sally had no understanding of politics.
  萨莉身处象牙塔内，对政治一点也不了解。
• In most countries, universities have tried to erase their ivory tower image.
  大多数国家的大学都试图去掉其象牙塔的印象。