grey area

noun

1. 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。

in AM, use 美国英语用 gray area


1. 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 a grey 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

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. 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
3. 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。
4. 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。
5. 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。
6. 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。
7. 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。
8. 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。
9. 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。
10. 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。
11. 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。
12. 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。
13. 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。
14. 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。
15. 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。
16. 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
17. 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。
18. 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。
19. 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。
20. 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。
21. The release of records or information without a signed authorization to another care provider is a legal grey area.
    毕竟未经签名授权给其他医疗提供者提供病历属于法律的灰色地带。
22. 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。
23. 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。
24. 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。
25. 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。
26. 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。
27. 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。
28. 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。
29. In the late 1980s, using solar energy as the main energy sources in heterogeneous pHotocatalytic oxidation is applied in environmental fields, but the mechanism and kinetics of the heterogeneous pHotocatalytic oxidation is still a grey area.
    八十年代后期，采用太阳能为主要光源的多相光催化氧化法开始应用于环保领域，但其机理尚在研究当中。
30. 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。

noun

1. an intermediate area

   Synonym:    gray area