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 own ivory tower provides a view of basic science, where economists do not venture.
  我的个人研究形成了一种针对基础科学的看法，而经济学家没有做到这一点。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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；
• University campus is a beautiful ivory tower, where every occurrence of a life story of the journey will be a treasure.
  二大学校园是一座美丽的象牙塔，在这里发生的每一个故事都将成为人生旅途中的宝贵财富。
• 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。
• 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。
• We need to recognize that development knowledge is no longer the sole province of the researcher, the scholar, or the ivory tower.
  我们需要承认，发展知识不再是研究者、学者或象牙塔的唯一领地。
• We hope that people here don't just live in an ivory tower.
  我们希望这里的人们不要只是生活在象牙塔中。