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.
我真是非常擔(dān)心,我們公司這些日子虧損了那么多錢,要是在今后兩個(gè)月里情況沒(méi)有好轉(zhuǎn)的話,我們就徹底沒(méi)有希望,只好倒閉了。
Basket case也可以用來(lái)以半開(kāi)玩笑的口氣指?jìng)€(gè)別人,就像下面這個(gè)人。他正在找工作,剛剛到一個(gè)公司去面談回來(lái):
They made me wait so long for the interview that I was a basket case by the time I finally got called in. I've never been so nervous! I stammered, I stuttered--I almost couldn't remember my own name.
他們讓我等了很久才和我面談。等到他們叫我進(jìn)去的時(shí)候,我根本就不行了。我從來(lái)就沒(méi)有這樣緊張過(guò),結(jié)結(jié)巴巴地說(shuō)不出話來(lái),差一點(diǎn)連自己的名字都忘了。