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- academics living in ivory towers
生活在象牙塔中的学者
- academics living in ivory towers
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.- 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。 - ...ivory-tower intellectuals.
象牙塔中的知识分子
- They don't really, in their ivory towers, understand how pernicious drug crime is.
英英释义
noun
- a state of mind that is discussed as if it were a place
- he lived in the ivory tower of speculation
- they viewed universities as ivory towers
双语例句
- 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。 - 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。 - JSF1 was developed in an ivory tower, and the results, arguably, were less than spectacular.
JSF1就是在象牙塔中开发的,因此,它的出现并没有引起太大的轰动。 - Don't live in an ivory tower; you should face reality.
别活在象牙塔里;你该面对现实。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - Schrecker, Ellen. No Ivory Tower: McCarthyism and the Universities. 1986.
《没有象牙塔:麦卡锡主义和大学》1986。