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词组 in an ivory tower
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idiomin an ivory towerused about someone who is so involved in their work or ideas that they do not understand ordinary people and their problems:It's easy for Thompson in his academic ivory tower to be critical - he doesn't realize how much work is involved in helping abused children.Is the Prime Minister going to come out of his ivory tower and deal with the problems in social services?

in an/(one's) ivory tower

Residing or existing in a place or among a social circle that is characterized by effete academic intelligence and thus is out of touch with or aloof from the realities of life. I don't put much weight in the advice of a bunch of economists living in their ivory towers who've never worked a real job in their lives. It seemed easy to solve all the world's problems when I was living in an ivory tower. Now that I'm out of college, I realize things are so much more complex than I'd imagined.

*in an ivory tower

Fig. in a place, such as a university, where one can be aloof from the realities of living. (Typ—ically: be ~; dwell ~; live ~; work ~.) If you didn't spend so much time in your ivory tower, you'd know what people really think! Many professors are said to live in ivory towers. They don't know what the real world is like.
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