basket case

basket case什么意思,basket case翻译

基本解释

na.: 四肢被截断的(病)人
网络: 篮子里的恶魔；毫无希望；废人

权威解释

• 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

英汉解释

• 四肢被截断的(病)人

例句

• That manager has 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沉。

• Despite the best intentions of many around the world, including the former President himself, Haiti is still a basket case.

  尽管世界上许多最好的意图，包括前总统本人，海地仍是一个空架子。

• The same applies to unruly Albania, which after years of progress is in danger of turning once more into a basket-case.

  难以驾驭的阿尔巴尼亚经过多年的发展却重新让其欧盟成员国身份陷入危险境地，当然也应受到同等对待。

• They made me wait so long for the interview that I was a basket case by the time I finally got called in.

  他们让我等了很久才和我面谈。

• North Korea"s economy, meanwhile, turned into a basket case following the collapse of the Soviet Union, its main benefactor.

  但与此同时，随着苏联的解体，朝鲜经济也陷入了瘫痪。苏联之前是朝鲜主要的援助者。

• In the Western imagination, China is as much an environmental basket case as it is an economic miracle.

  在西方人的印象中，中国面临的环境难题和创造的经济奇迹一样巨大。

• Somalia is an ecological basket case, with overpopulation, overgrazing and desertification destroying its pastoral economy.

  人口过剩、过度放牧、土地沙化破环了索马里的生态环境和游牧经济。

• Just think, if there is no proper job, a "social man" , would not become a social "basket case" ?

  试想，如果一个没有正当职业的“社会人”，岂不是成了社会“废人”？

• In five years under Marchionne, the company has gone from being a basket case to the M& A king of the industry.

  在马尔基翁5年来的领导下，菲亚特从一家完全没有希望的公司成长为汽车业的并购之王。

• whether Greece is a basket-case all of its own, or investors lose confidence in other heavily indebted governments.

  只是希腊一国经济崩溃，还是投资者对其他负债累累的国家也丧失了信心？