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
- 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - Hopefully we can all get organized and we can get out of this grey area.
希望我们都能组织起来，并且走出这个灰色地带。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。