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
- 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - Questionable research practices ( QRP) is grey area in scientific research which is between responsible conduct in research and misconduct in research.
QRP（有问题的研究行为）是指介于负责任的科学研究行为与研究中的不端行为之间的灰色领域。 - 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。 - Under the new rules, these structures have been moved from a tolerable grey area to one far darker and less likely to prosper, Ms Hu said.
胡淼表示，根据新规定，这些结构性产品已被从一个可容忍的灰色地带，移到了一个更为灰暗、更不可能继续发展的地带。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。