no-man's-land
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an area or strip of land that no one owns or controls , such as a strip of land between two countries ' borders , especially in a war
(尤指戰(zhàn)時兩國交界處的)無人地帶,真空地帶
to be lost /stranded /stuck in no-man's-land 迷失在/滯留在/困在無人地帶
They found themselves trapped in the no-man's-land between the two warring factions . 他們發(fā)現(xiàn)自己困在交戰(zhàn)雙方之間的真空地帶。
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a situation or area of activity where there are no rules , or that no one understands or controls because it belongs neither to one type nor another
性質(zhì)尚未確定的形勢(或領(lǐng)域),真空地帶
The families of people who die in custody are in a legal no-man's-land when they try to discover what went wrong . 被監(jiān)禁人在監(jiān)禁期間死亡,其家屬試圖查清事實真相時,卻找不到相關(guān)的法律支持。 返回 no-man's-land