basket case

英 [ˈbɑːskɪt keɪs]

美 [ˈbæskɪt keɪs]

n.  经济状况极差的国家(或机构); 精神失常的人; 无适应能力的人

医学

牛津词典

noun

• 经济状况极差的国家（或机构）
  a country or an organization whose economic situation is very bad
• 精神失常的人；无适应能力的人
  a person who is slightly crazy and who has problems dealing with situations

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT （经济或金融）困境
  If someone describes a country or organization as abasket case, they mean that its economy or finances are in a seriously bad state.
  1. The country is an economic basket case with chronic unemployment and rampant crime.
     这个国家长期失业严重、犯罪猖獗，经济几近瘫痪。
• N-COUNT 精神失常者
  If you describe someone as abasket case, you think that they are insane.
  1. You're going to think I'm a basket case when I tell you this.
     如果我告诉了你这件事，你会认为我脑子进水了。

双语例句

• The calibration and interpretation methods of GHT fullbore gas-holdup tool, continuous flowmeters such as DBT diverter basket flowmeter, and high precision manometer being used, as well as two case histories are presented.
  介绍了所使用的GHT全井眼持气率计、DBT集流伞式流量计等连续流量计和高精度压力计的刻度和解释方法，给出了2口井的测井实例。
• 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。
• That manager have been a basket case here since his wife left him.
  自从太太离开他后，那位经理就变得意志消沈。
• So why'd you ever hire a basket case like me?
  那你为什么还要雇佣象我这样的废人？
• You're going to think I'm a basket case when I tell you this.
  如果我告诉了你这件事，你会认为我脑子进水了。
• Before the Troubles, Northern Ireland was an economic basket case.
  在70年代动乱之前，北爱尔兰在经济上处于完全瘫痪状态。
• The country is an economic basket case with chronic unemployment and rampant crime.
  这个国家长期失业严重、犯罪猖獗，经济几近瘫痪。
• North Korea's economy, once hailed as a miracle, was written off as a basket case.
  北韩的经济，曾经被誉为一个奇迹，被注销的，作为一篮子的情况。
• A student who studies too hard for exams may not eat, sleep or play, for so long that he becomes a basket case and must be sent to the hospital.
  为了考试而用功过度的学生，也可能不吃、不睡、不玩，时间久了，成了无力自理的人，只好被送进医院。
• At the bottom of the basket lay three microfilms, each in a metal case.
  在筐子底下藏着三卷微缩胶卷，都用铁盒子装着。