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
- There is a third grey area company that we need to address as well.
有一种处于灰色地带的第三类公司我也需要说明一下。 - 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。 - Private publishers have long outperformed state rivals in spotting and producing best-selling manuscripts, but they operate in a legal grey area.
长期以来，民营出版公司在发现和制作畅销书稿方面一直优于国有竞争对手，但它们的经营处在法律灰色地带。 - The release of records or information without a signed authorization to another care provider is a legal grey area.
毕竟未经签名授权给其他医疗提供者提供病历属于法律的灰色地带。 - 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。 - 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。 - It started as a way to protect consumer rights but gradually became a grey area for power and money, he said.
最初这是一种保护消费者权利的方式，但后来逐渐变成了一个谋求权力和金钱的灰色地带。 - 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。 - 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。 - Based on the two-way differential model forming principle and the idea of grey area, the two-way differential grey model of the long-term forecasting of groundwater regime is established in this paper.
本文基于双向差分建模原理及灰域预测思想，建立了地下水动态长期预报的灰色双向差分模型。