Ivory tower
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象牙塔, 象牙塔
a situation or state in which someone does not know or wishes to avoid the unpleasant things that can normally happen to people in their ordinary lives
Disapproving
Idiom
Informal
例子
The book was written by some college professor who 's spent her entire professional life in an ivory tower.
这本书是由一位整个职业生涯都待在象牙塔里的大学教授写的。
The professor 's theories are intriguing, but they often come across as ivory tower ideas that do n't consider real-world constraints.
教授的理論很有趣，但它們經常被視為不考慮現實世界限制的象牙塔想法。
