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)

经济

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
  1. 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。

柯林斯词典

in AM, use 美国英语用 gray area


• 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.
  1. 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。
  2. ...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

英英释义

noun

• an intermediate area
  Synonym:gray area

双语例句

• Handling exceptions, on the other hand, is a grey area.
  另一方面，处理例外是一个灰色的区域。
• 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。
• There remains a big grey area between bribery and political deal-making.
  贿赂与政治交易之间，存在一个巨大的灰色地带。
• Many of the factories got off the ground using money raised by a handful of relatives and family friends from underground banks, which exist in a legal grey area, tolerated but not formally approved by the authorities.
  许多工厂的起步都用的是亲戚和家里的朋友从地下钱庄筹集到的钱，这种地下钱庄存在于法律上的灰色地带，它被默许存在，但没有得到官方的正式批准。
• We hope they will not make use of any grey area in the ordinance to come up with any pretext for cutting their paid meal hours or days off.
  即使如此，我们希望雇主不应该利用法例的灰色地带，在饭钟钱和休息日工资巧立名目，侵损雇员的利益。
• 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
• 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。
• 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。
• There is also a grey area here, let me say going back to what you were saying earlier.
  这里还存在着一个灰色地带，我现在来说你刚才所说的话题。
• Using cyber attacks to spy on another nation is a grey area, which gets greyer still when a country penetrates information networks, just to see if it can do so.
  利用网络攻击来暗中窥探他国是一个灰色地带；而某国侵入他国信息网络、只为看看自己是否有能力这样做，则是一个更加灰色的地带。