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单词 ivory-tower
释义 ivory-tower
\| ̷ ̷( ̷ ̷) ̷ ̷| ̷ ̷\ adjective
1. : marked by failure or refusal to face or cope with reality and practical matters : nonrealistic, impractical, dreamy, escapist
 < her thinking is ivory-tower — J.F.Dinneen >
 < were this the only result, the work would indeed have been ivory-tower — A.A.Twichell >
 < the ivory-tower point of view of certain academicians and librarians — John Farrar >
 < ivory-tower seclusion of the scholar — Sergius Yakobson >
2. : preoccupied with what is wholly or nearly wholly speculative or theoretical or abstract or esoteric
 < ivory-tower writers and artists >
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