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

• 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。
• The country, critics argued, was not an economic basket case like other European nations trying similar programs.
  批评者称，与其他尝试类似计划的欧洲国家不同，马耳他在经济上并非一团糟。
• 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。
• Another aim was to apply the new model using real market basket dataset case study to assess its effectiveness.
  本文的另一个目的是将提出的模型应用到真实购物篮分析中，以评估其有效性。
• 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。
• Food, the main victim of escalating prices, accounts for a third of the CPI basket and will likely lead to demands for higher wages; in any case, other costs like healthcare and utilities are also rising.
  作为价格不断上涨的主要受害者，食品在cpi商品篮子中占三分之一的权重，食品涨价可能将导致人们提出加薪的要求；不管怎样，医疗和水电煤气等其它成本也在不断上升。
• Launders, 27, said she has spent most of the year "like a basket case" despite seeing a therapist once a week.
  27岁的朗黛丝说，尽管她每周去理疗一次，她今年过的大半日子像个四肢不全的废人。
• 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。
• CEOs who inherit a basket case or who hit crises on their watch can demand a little more forbearance from shareholders.
  那些接手一个烂摊子、或在任内抵制危机的CEO们，可以要求股东再宽容一些。
• This Balkan country used to be an economic basket case.
  这个巴尔干国家的经济曾一度处于瘫痪状态。