柯林斯詞典ivory tower (ivory towers) 1. N-COUNT 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. 象牙塔; 指脫離實際生活和經驗的閉塞空間[usu prep N, N n] [表不滿] They don't really, in their ivory towers, understand how pernicious drug crime is. 身處象牙塔里，他們并不真正懂得毒品犯罪多么有害。 返回 ivory tower劍橋詞典To live or be in an ivory tower is not to know about or to want to avoid the ordinary and unpleasant things that happen in people's lives . 象牙塔 Academics sitting in ivory towers have no understanding of what is important for ordinary people . 坐在象牙塔里的學究們并不了解普通人的需求。 返回 ivory tower