单词 | no-man's-land |
释义 | no-man's-land ˈno-man's-land /ˈnəʊ.mænz.lænd/ aep /ˈnoʊ-/ noun F0 [S or U] 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: » to be lost/stranded/stuck in no-man's-land» They found themselves trapped in the no-man's-land between the two warring factions.Thesaurus+: ↑Territorial boundariesF0 [S] 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: » The families of people who die in custody are in a legal no-man's-land when they try to discover what went wrong.Thesaurus+: ↑Uncertainty , ↑Hesitating , ↑Achievable |
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