1·You're going to think I'm a basket case when I tell you this.
当我告诉你这些的时候，你肯定会认为我失态了。
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
2·You look like a basket case!
看起来一点精神也没有！
3·The term 'basket case' has an interesting origin.
一词的起源很有趣。
4·The country was an economic basket case due to civil war.
那个国家由于内战的关系，经济瘫痪。
5·The interviewer is thinking, "This guy is a basket case."
招聘官此时所想的是：“这个家伙不会有希望的。”
6·Ll: Oh, a basket case is someone who is really upset or nervous.
噢，原来basket case就是指一个人很紧张，很不高兴。
7·When housing prices plummeted, the monocline industry quickly became 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。
8·Instead I say to myself: damn you, Henry Kissinger, for calling my country a basket case.
相反，我对自已说，得了，连基辛格都说这个国家”一堆麻烦“呢。
9·I was a basket case, the teacher is not news to me is just like drinking sweet as honey.
我是一个话篓子，老师不在的消息对我来说简直像喝蜂蜜一样甜。
10·These are the factors that led Henry Kissinger to peer into the newborn country’s cot and declare it a basket case.
因为这些原因，亨利·基辛格说这个襁褓中的国家“一堆麻烦”。