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basket casen.Informal(名词)【非正式用语】- One that is in a completely hopeless or useless condition:完全不起作用的人,没有希望的人:"He immediately becomes a psychological basket case, embittered to the point of craziness"(New York)"After World War I, when the Hapsburg empire was split up, little Austria seemed a basket case"(Paul A. Samuelson)“他立刻就完全绝望了,痛苦得快要疯狂”(纽约)“第一次世界大战之后,哈布斯堡王朝瓦解了,小小的奥地利看起来毫无作为”(保罗A.塞缪尔森)
- A person, especially a soldier, who has had all four limbs amputated.残障者,截肢的人:截去四肢的人,特别是被截去四肢的士兵、战士
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