ivory tower

What do professors and academics sitting in their ivory towers know about the real world?

那些坐在象牙塔里的教授和学者对真实世界又知道多？

Just because I’m a writer, it doesn’t mean I live in an ivory tower. I have to earn a living like anyone else.

个家，不意味着生活在象牙塔里。要像其他人一样谋生，养活自己。