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

• 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。
• 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。
• The professor be shut up in the ivory tower all the time.
  教授整天在象牙塔里呆着。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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 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。
• Schrecker, Ellen. No Ivory Tower: McCarthyism and the Universities. 1986.
  《没有象牙塔：麦卡锡主义和大学》1986。
• 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。
• 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。