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)
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- 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。
- Exactly what can be called an offensive weapon is still a grey area.
柯林斯词典
- 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.- 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。 - ...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
- At the moment, the law on compensation is very much a grey area.
in AM, use 美国英语用 gray area
英英释义
noun
- an intermediate area
双语例句
- On the lesser question of whether in fact you are right, it is a grey area.
关于你是否真的正确这个次要问题，也不是那么清楚。 - 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 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。 - Because of lack of flexible regulation for true NGOs, many still operate in a legal grey area that means they can be shut down at any time.
由于缺乏真正的非政府组织那种灵活的规则，许多这类组织仍然在法律的灰色地带运作，这意味着他们随时可能被关闭。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。