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
- 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。 - 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。 - 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 - 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。 - Based on the two-way differential model forming principle and the idea of grey area, the two-way differential grey model of the long-term forecasting of groundwater regime is established in this paper.
本文基于双向差分建模原理及灰域预测思想,建立了地下水动态长期预报的灰色双向差分模型。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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 - 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。