French-English translations for tour d’ivoire
- ivory towerThe time is past when researchers could sit in their ivory towers. Le temps des chercheurs installés dans leur tour d’ivoire est révolu. In reply to this I would say that we are not working in an ivory tower. Je leur répondrai que nous ne sommes pas reclus dans une tour d’ivoire. Such a proposal looks fine from an ivory tower, but it could never work in real life
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