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

• 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。
• We don't want to be pushing something out of an ivory tower somewhere.
  我们不想从某个象牙塔里推出什么东西。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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 lived in an ivory tower.
  这个教授生活在象牙塔中。
• 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。
• I do agree with you that we need a bridge between ivory tower and the main street.
  我非常赞同您说的，在象牙塔和街头的大众人群之间要有一座桥梁。
• 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。