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

• Living in your ivory tower at oxford, you can't imagine what it's like to go hungry.
  你生活在牛津的象牙之塔中，想像不到挨饿是什么滋味。
• 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。
• The professor be shut up in the ivory tower all the time.
  教授整天在象牙塔里呆着。
• 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。
• 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。
• I approve of business schools carrying out research, but it should be practical, not ivory tower.
  我赞成商学院搞研究，但必须注重实践，而不是躲在象牙塔里。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Don't live in an ivory tower; you should face reality.
  别活在象牙塔里；你该面对现实。