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

• The professor lived in an ivory tower.
  这个教授生活在象牙塔中。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Schrecker, Ellen. No Ivory Tower: McCarthyism and the Universities. 1986.
  《没有象牙塔：麦卡锡主义和大学》1986。