grey area
英 [ˌɡreɪ ˈeəriə]
美 [ˌɡreɪ ˈeriə]
n. 灰色地带，中间区域(界线不明、不易归类、难以界定或处理的领域或形势)
牛津词典
noun
- 灰色地带，中间区域（界线不明、不易归类、难以界定或处理的领域或形势）
an area of a subject or situation that is not clear or does not fit into a particular group and is therefore difficult to define or deal with- Exactly what can be called an offensive weapon is still a grey area.
究竟什么可称作进攻性武器仍然难以界定。
- Exactly what can be called an offensive weapon is still a grey area.
柯林斯词典
- N-COUNT 灰色地带，中间区域（界线不明、责任不清、难以处理的领域或情形）
If you refer to something as agrey area, you mean that it is unclear, for example because nobody is sure how to deal with it or who is responsible for it, or it falls between two separate categories of things.- At the moment, the law on compensation is very much a grey area.
目前，关于赔偿的法律规定十分不明确。 - ...that gray area between blue-collar laborers and white-collar professionals.
介于蓝领工人和白领专业人士之间的中间地带
- At the moment, the law on compensation is very much a grey area.
in AM, use 美国英语用 gray area
英英释义
noun
- an intermediate area
双语例句
- To set the breakpoint, open GetFlights. jsp, and right-click in the grey area to the left of the line of code which starts with
为设置断点，打开GetFlights.jsp，在以 - On the lesser question of whether in fact you are right, it is a grey area.
关于你是否真的正确这个次要问题，也不是那么清楚。 - Some typos present enough of a grey area to make them difficult to pursue the perpetrators through the courts.
打字错误是一个很大的灰色地带，很难通过法庭来起诉抢注者。 - And yet the decision highlighted a grey area in furniture design copyright.
这一判决凸现了家具设计知识产权的一个灰色地带。 - This is precisely how most people view their food choices-as unhealthy indulgence or unbearable privation-with little grey area in-between.
这正是大多数人如何看待他们的食物选择的不健康的放纵或者不堪忍受的苦行二者不可调和。 - Many banks have already spun off prop desks, which would clearly fall foul of the new rules, but a vast grey area of activity remains.
许多银行已经拆分了显然会与新规冲突的自营交易部门，但这些交易活动仍在大量的灰色地带存在。 - The ASCI uses a10-point scale for its qualitative questions as well, which allows for more grey area than a more narrow scale, he says.
利用10个度量表上为其定性的问题，使更多的灰色地带，比更狭窄的规模，他说。 - Immediately an associated thought came to my mind that there are many things in this world and life that are in the grey area, ambiguous and dubious
让我顿时联想这世界和人生也有很多灰色地带、模棱两可、似是而非的事情 - Because of lack of flexible regulation for true NGOs, many still operate in a legal grey area that means they can be shut down at any time.
由于缺乏真正的非政府组织那种灵活的规则，许多这类组织仍然在法律的灰色地带运作，这意味着他们随时可能被关闭。 - Banking and health insurance in the United States are both examples of this grey area company.
美国的银行和保险公司大都是此类灰色地带的公司。