ivory tower

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

那些坐在里的教授和学者对真实世界又知道多少？

2.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.

我是个家，但这并不意味着我生活在里。我要像其他人一样谋生，养活自己。