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

• My classmates are married, and I was hiding the ivory tower;
  我的同学们都成家立业了，我还在象牙塔里躲藏；
• Living in your ivory tower at oxford, you can't imagine what it's like to go hungry.
  你生活在牛津的象牙之塔中，想像不到挨饿是什么滋味。
• 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。
• The professor be shut up in the ivory tower all the time.
  教授整天在象牙塔里呆着。
• 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。
• Last summer I got out of the ivory tower and entered the real world.
  去年夏天我走出象牙塔，真实的世界。
• The professor lived in an ivory tower.
  这个教授生活在象牙塔中。
• The professor lives in an ivory tower; he does not pay much attention to current events.
  这位教授生活在象牙塔中，不太关心时事。
• Don't live in an ivory tower; you should face reality.
  别活在象牙塔里；你该面对现实。
• So in many respects, JSF2 combines the best aspects of ivory tower and real world.
  因此，JSF2在许多方面都结合了象牙塔和真实世界的长处。