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。
• 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。
• 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。
• These centralized teams should not work in "an ivory tower," rather they should work closely with the project teams to prove and refine the solution, harvesting the experiences as they move forward.
  这些集中化的团队不应该工作在“象牙塔”中，而应当与项目团队紧密联系，去验证和提炼解决方法，在前进的同时收获经验。
• 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。
• 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 should learn to respond to the need of the world instead of building in our ivory tower.
  我们应当学习回应世界的需要，而非在象牙塔内画地自限。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。