单词Ivy League
n.: 【教】常春藤联盟
网络: 美国常春藤；美国常春藤联明
常春藤联盟（指美国东部八所学术和社会地位高的大学）:
a group of eight traditional universities in the eastern US with high academic standards and a high social status
【教】常春藤联盟,美国东北部八所名牌大学
The setting was one of those country-like Ivy League campuses where the tuition exceeds the average American annual income.
那是一所常春藤联盟大学，那儿的学费高于美国人的人均年收入。
At least you"re not one of those "spineless" elites with an Ivy League education, like President Obama, who can"t feel anything.
至少你不是那种没骨气的常春藤高校毕业生，比如奥巴马总统，对万事漠不关心。
"The issue of being the last Ivy League school to have appointed a woman as president: who wants to do that? " she said.
她表示：“有这样一个问题，成为最后一所任命女性为校长的常青藤联盟学校：谁想这么做？”
Fourteen years of higher education and a handful of Ivy League degrees, and there I was, stiff and stupid, struck dumb by my own dumbness.
我十四年的大学教育和在几所常春藤大学工作的经历使得我傻乎乎站在那里，笨拙不堪，尴尬不已。
I can"t wait for you to come home next thanksgiving a militant veganism, anemic and proud. Brown is an ivy league school.
我不能等你下周感恩节才回来，激进的素食主义者，贫血而又骄傲。布朗是常春藤联盟的学校。
and so, although icily sardonic in conversation and convinced he would be a "superlative" writer, he never made the Ivy League.
于是，尽管在与人交谈时会带有不友善的讽刺，尽管确信自己会成为一个“最棒的”作家，他最终却没有迈进常春藤盟校。
He made the G-Man brand so popular that, at its height, it was harder to become an FBI agent than to be accepted into an Ivy League college.
他把美国联邦调查局探员塑造成了一个流行品牌，在巅峰时期，想当一名联邦调查局探员比进一所常青藤院校还要难。
"My parents have been so good to me, I feel like I would be letting them down if I didn"t get into an Ivy League school.
父母对我这么好，如果考不上一所常春藤盟校，我感觉就辜负了他们的期望。
By then, Shawn and Amy, our oldest girls were attending expensive Ivy League schools and we had only a few thousand dollars in the bank.
当时，两个大的女儿肖恩和埃米正在费用很高的常春藤学校上学，而我们只有几千美金的银行存款。
Facebook is cleanly designed and has a classy, upmarket feel to it--a whiff of the Ivy League still clings.
Facebook有着简洁的设计，并且给人一种漂亮的、高档的感觉，这也是常春滕盟校一直坚持的方向。