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Definition of ivory tower in English: ivory towernoun A state of privileged seclusion or separation from the facts and practicalities of the real world. 象牙塔（脱离现实世界的优越的隔离状态） the ivory tower of academia 学术界的象牙塔。 Example sentencesExamples - Robbie Johnson had cornered a timid young lecturer and was educating him about the nature of the real world outside the ivory tower.
- I'm not going to an ivory tower to write reports and articles for other academics.
- Some of us would enjoy the ivory tower only too much, and there is plenty of self-interest on the part of academics who want to return to it.
- His views are shaped by regular trips on the beat, recognising it is not enough to sit ‘in my ivory tower pontificating about the sociology of drug abuse’.
- Rhythm and movement are everywhere in India, like air and water, and affect even the most prosaic shopkeeper in the bazaar or the academic in his ivory tower.
Synonyms theoretical, conceptual, notional, philosophical, unpragmatic, hypothetical, speculative, conjectural, conjectured, suppositional, putative
OriginEarly 20th century: translating French tour d'ivoire, used by the writer Sainte-Beuve. Definition of ivory tower in US English: ivory towernounˈˌīv(ə)rē ˈˌtou(ə)rˈˌaɪv(ə)ri ˈˌtaʊ(ə)r A state of privileged seclusion or separation from the facts and practicalities of the real world. 象牙塔（脱离现实世界的优越的隔离状态） the ivory tower of academia 学术界的象牙塔。 Example sentencesExamples - His views are shaped by regular trips on the beat, recognising it is not enough to sit ‘in my ivory tower pontificating about the sociology of drug abuse’.
- Some of us would enjoy the ivory tower only too much, and there is plenty of self-interest on the part of academics who want to return to it.
- Robbie Johnson had cornered a timid young lecturer and was educating him about the nature of the real world outside the ivory tower.
- I'm not going to an ivory tower to write reports and articles for other academics.
- Rhythm and movement are everywhere in India, like air and water, and affect even the most prosaic shopkeeper in the bazaar or the academic in his ivory tower.
Synonyms theoretical, conceptual, notional, philosophical, unpragmatic, hypothetical, speculative, conjectural, conjectured, suppositional, putative
OriginEarly 20th century: translating French tour d'ivoire, used by the writer Sainte-Beuve. |