英：[ˈbɑ:skit keis]
美：[ˈbæskɪt kes]
basket case如何读
basket case是什么意思
（因战争或灾难而造成）四肢不全的人，完全没有希望的人；
basket case英英释义
noun
informal a person who is functionally incapacitated from extreme nervousness, emotional distress, mental or physical overwork, etc. At 6 o'clock nearly every morning, Harvey Mackay hits the floor running. In a few minutes he's off on his seven-miler. "With all the traveling I do, if I didn't run I'd be a basket case," says the man whose dizzy day of activities usually doesn't wind up until one the next morning.—Jim Braham Needless to say, I was a basket case for the rest of the afternoon and evening, convinced that at any moment the man would reappear at my window.—Stephanie Booth
I was so worried about losing my job that I was a complete basket case.
informal something (such as a business or government) that is dysfunctional, run-down, or close to failure Despite its perceived liabilities, Poland has made astounding progress in just two years. It was an economic basket case until the end of 1989, with hyperinflation, bare shelves and food lines.—Blaine Harden Any antique airplane that can be located is sold (even basket cases) at high premium to enthusiastic antiquers who fly them with pride.—Francis Rourke
But the utility industry is a financial basket case. Once the bluest of blue chips, utility stocks and bonds have lost their luster.—Chemical and Engineering News
dated, informal + offensive a person who has all four limbs amputated
noun
informal a person who is functionally incapacitated from extreme nervousness, emotional distress, mental or physical overwork, etc. At 6 o'clock nearly every morning, Harvey Mackay hits the floor running. In a few minutes he's off on his seven-miler. "With all the traveling I do, if I didn't run I'd be a basket case," says the man whose dizzy day of activities usually doesn't wind up until one the next morning.—Jim Braham Needless to say, I was a basket case for the rest of the afternoon and evening, convinced that at any moment the man would reappear at my window.—Stephanie Booth
I was so worried about losing my job that I was a complete basket case.
informal something (such as a business or government) that is dysfunctional, run-down, or close to failure Despite its perceived liabilities, Poland has made astounding progress in just two years. It was an economic basket case until the end of 1989, with hyperinflation, bare shelves and food lines.—Blaine Harden Any antique airplane that can be located is sold (even basket cases) at high premium to enthusiastic antiquers who fly them with pride.—Francis Rourke
But the utility industry is a financial basket case. Once the bluest of blue chips, utility stocks and bonds have lost their luster.—Chemical and Engineering News
dated, informal + offensive a person who has all four limbs amputated
basket case词源中文解释
1919年，美国英语，最初是指第一次世界大战中遭受灾难性伤害导致四肢瘫痪的谣言（美国军方当局极力否认其医院中有这样的情况），源自 basket（n.）+ case（n.2）。可能是字面意思，即被困在篮子里，但 basket 在此之前就已经有了贫困（乞讨）和无助的俚语含义。"情感无法应对的人"的比喻意义始于1921年。
basket case词源英文解释
The first known use of basket case was in 1919
basket case 例句
1 I was so worried about losing my job that I was a complete basket case.
2 a business that was once very successful but is now a financial basket case
3 When China was an economic basket case, 100 miles of ocean was more than enough deterrent.
4 Communist China was a basket case under one-man rule.
5 Sri Lanka is an international basket case whose foreign reserves — which once stood at over $6 billion under the Rajapaksas — have dwindled to almost nothing.
6 Naím was once, in a happier day, the finance minister of Venezuela, and Hugo Chávez, who took a troubled but essentially prosperous country with a long democratic tradition and turned it into an international basket case, comes in for close study.
7 Credit Suisse has become a European banking basket case.
8 The village was literally a basket case, bereft of water, food and all hope.
9 Venezuela, another socialist basket case, slips to the second-most-miserable country in the world after six years in the pole position.
10 Today, a mere million dollars barely buys a Miura basket case.
11 In any case, they got their kicks by abusing these helpless little kids day after day after day.
无论如何日复一日的虐待这些无助的小孩子们给这些人带来了极大的乐趣。
12 I may look dumb but I'm no basket case.
我看上去很沉默但我不是失去四肢的人.
13 After that meeting, I was practically a basket case.
那次会议后, 我几乎精神崩溃了.
14 If you change your job constantly, you may become a basket case.
假如你常常更换工作, 你的心理会变成不稳定.
15 When housing prices plummeted, the monocline industry quickly a basket case.
当房价骤然下降, 单一金融行业迅速陷入难以救药的状态.
16 We were a basket case in the early eighties.
在八十年代初,我们是一群毫无用处的废人.
17 It got that much only because the bank was a basket case.
花旗能在此役大胜完全归因广发行没多大价值.
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