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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• It started as a way to protect consumer rights but gradually became a grey area for power and money, he said.
  最初这是一种保护消费者权利的方式，但后来逐渐变成了一个谋求权力和金钱的灰色地带。
• 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。
• 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。
• There is a third grey area company that we need to address as well.
  有一种处于灰色地带的第三类公司我也需要说明一下。
• 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。
• 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。