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

• There's a grey area in the game over intent or not intent," said the manager. "You can never prove it.
  关于故意或无意，是一个灰色地带，你永远证明不了什么。
• The difference between gross negligence and recklessness is a legal grey area.
  严重渎职与草率行事之间的区别是一个法律上的官区。
• 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
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• However, the folk financing is still in the grey area between legal and illegal, and the law did not make a clear regulation about this.
  但我国现行的法律法规对民间融资尚未有明确的定位，民间融资还处于合法与非法之间的尴尬境地。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。