ivory tower
ivory tower 英 [ˈaivəri ˈtauə] 美 [ˈaɪvəri ˈtaʊɚ]
n. 象牙塔（指脱离现实生活的小天地）
名词复数:ivory towers
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- n. 象牙塔（指脱离现实生活的小天地）
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1. Success is the most desirable thing, and everyone wants it, especially for those students who just gradate from ivory tower.
成功是件好事，每个人都渴望成功，尤其对那些刚刚从象牙塔毕业的大学生。
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2. Yet Mr Samuelson also understood that beyond the ivory tower the conditions necessary for efficient markets rarely existed; they needed regulating.
然而，萨缪尔森同样清楚，走下象牙塔，有效市场的必要条件鲜有存在；市场需要规范。
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3. JSF 1 was developed in an ivory tower, and the results, arguably, were less than spectacular.
JSF 1 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。
- ivory tower (n.) symbol of artistic or intellectual aloofness, by 1889, from French tour d'ivoire, used in 1837 by critic Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve (1804-1869) with reference to the poet Alfred de Vigny (1797-1863), whom he accused of excessive aloofness.
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