Living in your ivory tower at oxford , you can ' t imagine what it ' s like to go hungry 你生活在牛津的象牙之塔中，想像不到挨饿是什么滋味。
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In reality , the university often goes to two extremes : to be vulgarization or to be a " ivory tower " 但是在现实中，大学往往走向两个极端：由于过度强调大学对社会的适应而走向庸俗化，由于过分保守而成为与世隔绝的“象牙之塔” 。
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In knowledge - economic age , when advanced knowledge is acted as the main social productivity , consequentially the higher education is all - round penetrating and participating social activities , at the same time , unavoidably , close unattached traditional fencing university is making for exoteric panoramic non - fencing university town . that is to say , there is a history trend between university and city : from the tower of ivory keeping away from city to research university lingering the city to university town stepping in the city , which causes a new idea and originality of " university town " 当知识经济时代把高深知识作为社会生产力时，高等教育必然全方位渗透、参与经济社会活动，封闭的、独立的传统围墙大学必然走向开放的、接纳的没有围墙的大学城，即大学从卓然独立于城市的“象牙之塔”到徘徊于城市边缘的“研究型大学”到终于走进了城市的中心，开始与城市携手交融的这一发展趋势必然引致一种新理念? ? “大学城市化”的进发，一种新创意? ? “大学城”的诞生。
