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basket case

竹篮打水一场空,篮子案例,篓子

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Slang.

    • : Offensive. a person who has had all four limbs amputated.
    • : a person who is helpless or incapable of functioning normally, especially due to overwhelming stress, anxiety, or the like.
    • : anything that is impaired or incapable of functioning: Right after the war the conquered nation was considered an economic basket case.

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Examples

  • Certain features of its history suggest why this may be the case.

  • And, in the case of fluoride, at least, that doubt might actually be justified.

  • Her latest book, Heretic: The Case for a Muslim Reformation, will be published in April by HarperCollins.

  • Their friendship began when Krauss, who was chairman of the physics department at Case Western in Cleveland, sought out Epstein.

  • A grand juror in the Ferguson case is suing to be able to explain exactly what went down in the courtroom.

  • The case was an assault and battery that came off between two men named Brown and Henderson.

  • In this case, I suspect, there was co-operant a strongly marked childish characteristic, the love of producing an effect.

  • Sometimes in the case of large plants, cones have been known to occur on the tips of the branches of the Marsh Horsetail.

  • As a rule, however, even in the case of extreme varieties, a careful examination of the specimen will enable it to be identified.

  • Thus was the man left entirely to the devil, not even his life being reserved, as in the case of Job.