ivory tower

UK // (ˈtaʊə) //

象牙塔,像牙塔,常春藤塔,常春藤塔楼

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : a place or situation remote from worldly or practical affairs: the university as an ivory tower.
- : an attitude of aloofness from or disdain or disregard for worldly or practical affairs: his ivory tower of complacency.

nounplace of learning

Synonyms

The bell tower bellows loudly when a little muscle power is put into it.
Her brother perished in the North Tower of the World Trade Center in the 9/11 attacks.
Movie buffs have commented endlessly on the bell-tower sequence in Vertigo.
It involved a model of the tower set on its side for the shot.
In Vertigo there's a strange cut in the first bell-tower sequence.
The tower has four clock faces, pinnacles at the angles, and a steep slate roof and is 120 feet high.
At the Flagstaff Tower the 74th and the remainder of the 38th suddenly told their officers that they would obey them no longer.
The height of the tower from the level of the street is 105 feet, the slated towers over the lateral pediments being smaller.
John Wilkes released from the tower by the memorable sentence of chief justice Pratt.
In a dungeon of the corresponding tower, on this side of the castle, was the prison of Ripperda.