They're living in an ivory tower.

他们生活在象牙塔里。

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Now I am in the ivory tower for my further education to broad my horizon.

如今，为了拓展自己的知识视野，我身处象牙塔中继续求学。

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Answering customer and employee e-mails keeps you grounded a little bit, because you’re in these meetings, and you can get a little bit in the ivory tower, and it keeps you kind of focused.

回复客户和员工的邮件会让你对基层的把握更坚实一些，因为许多的会议让人处于一个象牙塔般，而与客户员工沟通使人回归重点，更专注于问题。

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And as his mandate, during his presidency, he had two aims: the first aim-- to make academic psychology more accessible, - in other words- bridge Ivory tower and mainstreet.

他任职期间的首要任务，是实现两个目标：,第一，让学院式心理学变得通俗，也就是说-,连接起象牙塔与普罗大众。

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It's about bridging the Ivory tower and the Main Street in the area that I believe is the most important one and talks to each and every one of us.

还涉及到如何将学校与社会连接起来,这个我认为最重要的领域,对我们来说都有意义。

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