You're going to think I'm a basketcase when I tell you this.
当我告诉你这些的时候，你肯定会认为我失态了。
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Instead I say to myself: damn you, Henry Kissinger, for calling my country a basketcase.
相反，我对自已说，得了，连基辛格都说这个国家”一堆麻烦“呢。
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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 basketcase and have to go out of business.