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。
• 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。
• With the development of our society, the campus no longer is an "Ivory Tower".
  随着社会的进步，大学校园不再是一个象牙塔。
• 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。
• 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。
• The professor be shut up in the ivory tower all the time.
  教授整天在象牙塔里呆着。
• Schrecker, Ellen. No Ivory Tower: McCarthyism and the Universities. 1986.
  《没有象牙塔：麦卡锡主义和大学》1986。
• University campus is a beautiful ivory tower, where every occurrence of a life story of the journey will be a treasure.
  二大学校园是一座美丽的象牙塔，在这里发生的每一个故事都将成为人生旅途中的宝贵财富。
• Xiao Yu is like a princess who lives in an ivory tower.
  小玉就象个一直生活在象牙之塔里的公主。
• 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。