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

• 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
• 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。
• Immediately an associated thought came to my mind that there are many things in this world and life that are in the grey area, ambiguous and dubious
  让我顿时联想这世界和人生也有很多灰色地带、模棱两可、似是而非的事情
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Handling exceptions, on the other hand, is a grey area.
  另一方面，处理例外是一个灰色的区域。