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。
Basket case也可以用来以半开玩笑的口气指个别人,就像下面这个人。他正在找工作,刚刚到一个公司去面谈回来:
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.
他们让我等了很久才和我面谈。等到他们叫我进去的时候,我根本就不行了。我从来就没有这样紧张过,结结巴巴地说不出话来,差一点连自己的名字都忘了。