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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Many of the factories got off the ground using money raised by a handful of relatives and family friends from underground banks, which exist in a legal grey area, tolerated but not formally approved by the authorities.
  许多工厂的起步都用的是亲戚和家里的朋友从地下钱庄筹集到的钱，这种地下钱庄存在于法律上的灰色地带，它被默许存在，但没有得到官方的正式批准。
• 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。
• 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。
• There remains a big grey area between bribery and political deal-making.
  贿赂与政治交易之间，存在一个巨大的灰色地带。
• 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。
• 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。