ivory tower

noun

1. 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

1. N-COUNT 象牙塔(指脱离实际生活的小天地)
   If you describe someone as living in an ivory 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

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. Perhaps he should have stepped down from the ivory tower and addressed concrete issues.
   或许，他本应该走出象牙塔，来解决更实际的问题。
3. 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。
4. 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。
5. 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。
6. 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。
7. 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。
8. 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。
9. 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。
10. 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。
11. 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。
12. 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。
13. 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。
14. 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。
15. 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。
16. 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。
17. 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。
18. Schrecker, Ellen. No Ivory Tower: McCarthyism and the Universities. 1986.
    《没有象牙塔：麦卡锡主义和大学》1986。
19. 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。
20. 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。
21. The professor be shut up in the ivory tower all the time.
    教授整天在象牙塔里呆着。
22. 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。
23. 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。
24. 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。
25. 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；
26. 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。
27. The professor lived in an ivory tower.
    这个教授生活在象牙塔中。
28. Don't live in an ivory tower; you should face reality.
    别活在象牙塔里；你该面对现实。
29. 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。
30. 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。

noun

1. 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