You can't understand it, can you, from way up there in your research ivory tower?

你无法了解的，你能吗？从你那高高在上的研究象牙塔里？

It took 10 days for officials there to build the 12 actual ivory towers that are now burning.

肯尼亚官员花费10天搭建完成的12座象牙塔现在全部被付之一炬。

We're blow-dried clowns sitting in an ivory tower.

关在象牙塔里 表面光鲜的小丑。

The terminus was the tower clock on the ivory tower.

终点站设在象牙塔上的楼钟。

The metaphor of the ivory tower walled off from its surroundings (and, at Yale, protected by moats and gates) is no longer apt.

将大学比作与世隔绝的象牙塔已不再恰当。相反，真实的情况是一种社会契约。

Somewhere in a high ivory tower inside Skywalker ranch, thunder crashes as George Lucas watches the world below, his creation slowly sweeping around the world.

在天行者牧场内一座高高的象牙塔的某处，乔治卢卡斯注视着下面的世界， 雷声四起，他的创作慢慢地席卷了整个世界。

It became obvious that his job and relative wealth was a huge basis for his identity and he lived in a sort of a ivory tower.

很明显，他的工作和相对财富是他身份认同的重要基础，他生活在一种象牙塔中。