| 单词 | ivory tower |
| 释义 | ivory tower —ivory-towered, ivory-towerish, adj. —ivory-towerism, ivorytowerishness, n. —ivory-towerist, ivory-towerite, n. 1. a place or situation remote from worldly or practical affairs: the university as an ivory tower. 2. an attitude of aloofness from or disdain or disregard for worldly or practical affairs: his ivory tower of complacency. [trans. of F tour d'ivoire, phrase used by C.A. Sainte-Beuve in reference to the isolated life of the poet A. de Vigny (1837)] |
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