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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• The difference between gross negligence and recklessness is a legal grey area.
  严重渎职与草率行事之间的区别是一个法律上的官区。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Private publishers have long outperformed state rivals in spotting and producing best-selling manuscripts, but they operate in a legal grey area.
  长期以来，民营出版公司在发现和制作畅销书稿方面一直优于国有竞争对手，但它们的经营处在法律灰色地带。