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

• 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。
• The spirit of change has even begun to take root inside the ivory tower.
  变革的精神甚至已经开始在象牙塔内部扎根。
• Don't live in an ivory tower; you should face reality.
  别活在象牙塔里；你该面对现实。
• 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；
• 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。
• 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。
• The professor lived in an ivory tower.
  这个教授生活在象牙塔中。
• 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。
• 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。
• Art has been regarded as the ivory tower, some bubble isolated from life, or some hyperplasia of a developed civilization.
  艺术被看作象牙之塔，某种孤立于生活的气泡，或者一个发达了的文明的增生症。