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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• The case highlights the fact that in China the issue of what is a state secret is a grey area.
  该事件突显出一个事实：在中国，对于什么是国家机密的问题是一个灰色地带。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。