basket case
basket case 英 [ˈbɑ:skit keis] 美 [ˈbæskɪt kes]
phrase. 四肢不全的人；完全伤残者；完全没有希望的人
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- phrase. 四肢不全的人；完全伤残者；完全没有希望的人
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1. I'm really worried - our company is losing so much money these days that if things don’t get better in the next two months we'll be a basket case and have to go out of business.
我真是非常担心，我们公司这些日子亏损了那么多钱，要是在今后两个月里情况没有好转的话，我们就彻底没有希望，只好倒闭了。
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2. He is portrayed as a basket case who fire people in elevators, manipulates partners, and takes credit for others’ achievements.
他被描绘成一个大伙儿不敢与之同乘电梯的人，玩弄合作伙伴的人，窃取他人成就的人。
- basket case (n.) 1919, American English, originally a reference to rumors of quadriplegics as a result of catastrophic wounds suffered in World War I (the U.S. military authorities vehemently denied there were any such in its hospitals), from basket (n.) + case (n.2). Probably literal, i.e., stuck in a basket, but basket had colloquial connotations of poverty (begging) and helplessness long before this. Figurative sense of "person emotionally unable to cope" is from 1921.
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