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。
• In the late 1980s, using solar energy as the main energy sources in heterogeneous pHotocatalytic oxidation is applied in environmental fields, but the mechanism and kinetics of the heterogeneous pHotocatalytic oxidation is still a grey area.
  八十年代后期，采用太阳能为主要光源的多相光催化氧化法开始应用于环保领域，但其机理尚在研究当中。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。