Thy mouth is like a band of scarlet on a tower of ivory.

你的嘴唇就像是象牙塔上的一抹鲜红。

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College is the tower of ivory bestriding real life. Thus, it ought to guide the entire society with a value surpassing any mundane life.

大学是一座高居于现实生活之上的象牙塔，它应该能有一种超越世俗生活的价值高度引导社会。

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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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The explicit mandate of positive psychology as well as of this class is to create a bridge between Ivory tower and mainstreet.

积极心理学及本课程的宗旨非常明确,就是要在象牙塔及大众间构建桥梁。

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Zuckerberg lately has gotten the reputation of the billionaire exec in the ivory tower, wearing a hoodie of course.

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Unsurprisingly, this has made him a sort of ivory-tower folk-hero of the American left a thinking person's Michael Moore.

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From a dynamic standpoint, it takes out all the politics the ivory-tower mentality of a headquarters.

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