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 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。
• My classmates are married, and I was hiding the ivory tower;
  我的同学们都成家立业了，我还在象牙塔里躲藏；
• 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。
• 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。
• The professor lived in an ivory tower.
  这个教授生活在象牙塔中。
• The professor be shut up in the ivory tower all the time.
  教授整天在象牙塔里呆着。
• Don't live in an ivory tower; you should face reality.
  别活在象牙塔里；你该面对现实。
• 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。
• The professor lives in an ivory tower; he does not pay much attention to current events.
  这位教授生活在象牙塔中，不太关心时事。
• 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。