ivory towers

These pale gray and ivory "tufa towers," located in California's Mono Lake, may look like eerie art instillations, but they occur naturally and are made of limestone.

Whimsical Towers稀奇古怪的钙华塔这些浅灰色和象牙形的“钙华塔”，位于美国加州的莫诺湖，它们可能看起来像是令人毛骨悚然的艺术灌注物，然而它们是在自然界里由石灰岩所构成的。

SOA Governance is more than a group of people who meet once a month ( or less) to talk about SOA topics, create enterprise SOA Policy, and then retreat to SOA Ivory Towers.

负责治理的人员每个月碰次面、讨论一些有关SOA的议题、建立企业SOA策略然后再缩回到SOA象牙塔里头，这种工作模式是无法适应SOA治理要求的。

Perhaps Mr Willetts should Tinker some more with the ivory towers.

威列茨或许应该进一步修补象牙塔。

Academics in their ivory towers don't seem to worry about how it will affect ordinary people.

生活在象牙塔中的学究们似乎不担心这将如何影响普通人的生活。

These are the perquisites designed to lure the brightest university graduates away from their ivory towers.

这些额外的补贴都引诱前途光明的大学生走出象牙塔。

They viewed universities as ivory towers.

他们把大学视为象牙塔.

( Academics, of course, live in ivory towers.) We, in turn, deride the people who do things.

（当然，学者们都生活在象牙塔里。）反过来，我们也嘲笑那些做实事的人。

It's time to meet some irresponsible architectures and unusual architects, who leave their ivory towers and share knowledge to make themselves redundant!

是时候曝光这些不负责任的架构与那些所谓的架构师了，让他们走下神坛吧。

Personal trading in the shares of potential targets is unambiguously barred at Wall Street banks, which are not exactly ivory towers when it comes to financial conflicts of interest.

在华尔街投行，个人交易潜在收购目标股票的行为无疑是被禁止的，在涉及财务利益冲突时华尔街银行并非严格意义上的象牙塔。

When they come downstairs from their ivory towers, idealists are apt to walk straight into the gutter.

当理想主义者从他们的象牙塔里走到楼下来的时候，很容易就走到阴沟里去。

academics living in ivory towers

生活在象牙塔中的学者

As MBA professors, we heard arguments that we had been teaching the wrong models, neglecting ethics, forgetting common sense, sitting in ivory towers made of spreadsheets and generally nurturing greed.

身为MBA教授，我们听过这样的说法：我们一直在教授错误的模型，忽视道德规范，忘记了基本常识，坐在由电子数据表搭建而成的象牙塔里，只知道培养贪婪之心。

Universities are regarded as ivory towers and consequently enjoy total academic freedom.

大学被视为象牙塔，所以完全享有学术自主权。

The advantage of ivory towers is that they allow a view beyond immediate problems.

象牙塔的优势在于，能够产生超脱眼前问题桎梏的观点。

They don't really, in their ivory towers, understand how pernicious drug crime is.

他们身处象牙塔中，并不真正了解毒品犯罪的危害有多大。

As far as universities are concerned, they have been long considered ivory towers in the minds of ordinary people.

长期以来，大学在普通民众心中，一直都是象牙塔的形象。

A popular criticism of schools is that they are" ivory towers," or places where study and research are divorced from the "real world".

关于学校的流行看法是它们是“象牙塔”，后事学习与研究同“真实世界”相分离的地方。

Administrators with training outside the ivory towers o f scholarship are obviously required.

目前显然需要那些在学术的象牙之塔以外受过训练的行政人员.

Can OCW shed new light on the breakdown of the walls of ivory towers?

它又能为打破象牙塔的围墙带来哪些新的思路呢？

However, as a result of the popularization of higher education, with diversity as its symbol, current universities are not traditional ivory towers any more. University development is increasingly affected by complex environment.

但时至今日，以多样化为主要标志的高等教育大众化已使大学走出了传统意义上的象牙塔，大学发展日益受到复杂环境的影响。

The ivory towers are as resilient as ever

象牙塔里的人们依旧如故

These pale gray and ivory" tufa towers," located in California's Mono Lake, may look like eerie art instillations, but they occur naturally and are made of limestone.

这些浅灰色和象牙形的“钙华塔”，位于美国加州的莫诺湖，它们可能看起来像是令人毛骨悚然的艺术灌注物，然而它们是在自然界里由石灰岩所构成的。

In the photo above, the moon rises over one of the dark ivory towers.

在上面的照片中，月亮高高地挂在一个昏暗的“象牙塔”上面。

Academics in their ivory towers have no idea what it is like to earn one's living in industry or commerce.

生活在象牙塔中的学者们不知道如何在工业和商业中谋生。

Zakri Abdul Hamid urged scientists to "come down from their ivory towers" to help solve the world's most pressing problems, including biodiversity loss, climate change and food insecurity.

Zakri Abdul Hamid敦促科学家“走出他们的象牙塔”从而帮助解决全世界最迫切的问题，包括生物多样性丧失、气候变化和粮食保障问题。

Scientists are becoming more willing to come out of their ivory towers.

科学家正在变得越来越愿意走出他们的象牙塔。

ALL TOO OFTEN, SOFTWARE ARCHITECTS sit in their ivory towers, dictating specifications, technology decisions, and technology direction to the developers below.

软件架构师普遍喜欢坐在舒适的环境里对开发人员颐指气使，下达他的技术决策和指令。

There can be no ivory towers any more. The CFOs have got to get out and talk to people.

再也不能有象牙塔了。首席财务官必须走出来，与人们交谈。