a grey area

/ə ˌɡreɪ ˈeəriə/NEUTRAL · C1
中文对应近似对应
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含义

a situation where the rules are not clear

规则不明确的情况.

例句

  1. 1Whether you can park outside the school on Sundays is a bit of a grey area.
  2. 2Sharing photos from a concert online is a grey area for many fans.
  3. 3Nobody could tell us whether dogs were allowed on the beach; it was a grey area.
  4. 4Working from a café abroad is still a grey area in my company's contract.
  5. 5Is copying a friend's notes cheating, or is it more of a grey area?

语法

可数:a grey area,复数为 grey areas。常用在 a bit of 或 more of 之后。美式拼写为 gray。

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