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Picture an open container woven from thin strips — bamboo, wire, plastic — with gaps you can see through. You drop things in and carry them together. That woven, open bowl shape is the picture behind every other use.

可以想成一個用細長條編出來的開口容器：竹片、鐵絲或塑膠條交錯，縫隙看得穿。東西丟進去，就能一起提著走。這個「編出來的…更多收起可以想成一個用細長條編出來的開口容器：竹片、鐵絲或塑膠條交錯，縫隙看得穿。東西丟進去，就能一起提著走。這個「編出來的開口凹槽」，看起來就是其他各種用法背後的那張圖。

From the picture

籃球的籃框

把籃子吊高、底部剪開，就是球場上那個框：球從上面丟進去、從下面掉出來，動作和把水果丟進籃子一模一樣。這項運動的名字本身就把那個籃子留在裡面了——basketball。

basketball hoop · noun · B1

In basketball, the net with a hole at the bottom, fixed to a metal ring, that you throw the ball through to score.

籃框；籃網

湊成一組來計算的「一籃子」

從「把散裝的東西收進同一個容器」借來的說法：經濟學家把好幾樣商品或幾種貨幣放進同一個假想的籃子，一起算它們的平均價值，這樣看到的是整體的走向，不會被單一項目的漲跌帶著走。

basket of goods/currencies · noun · B1

The average or total value of a group of different goods or currencies that are counted together.

一籃子（商品／貨幣）

Also in this word

woven basket · noun · B1

An open container made of woven strips, used for holding or carrying things.

籃子

online shopping basket · noun · B1

The place on a shopping website where you collect the things you want to buy.

購物車；購物籃

原始詞典資料22 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

basketnoun/ˈbɑːskɪt/

  • 1

    A lightweight woven container, generally round, open at the top, and tapering toward the bottom.

    • A basket of fake fruit adorned the table.
    • The earliest Wabanaki baskets were strong and bulky; practical tools for everyday life.
  • 2

    A lightweight woven container, generally round, open at the top, and tapering toward the bottom.

  • 3

    A wire or plastic container similar in shape to a basket, used for carrying articles for purchase in a shop.

  • 4

    In an online shop, a listing of a customer's chosen items before they are ordered.

  • 5

    A set or collection of intangible things.

    • The basket of issues that developing countries had vigorously wanted addressed such as agriculture, SANDD and implementation-related issues were given scant attention by developed countries for most part of the conference.
  • 6

    ball-gamesbasketballgamesA circular hoop, from which a net is suspended, which is the goal through which the players try to throw the ball.

    • The point guard drove toward the basket.
  • 7

    ball-gamesbasketballgamesThe act of putting the ball through the basket, thereby scoring points.

    • The last-second basket sealed the victory.
  • 8

    The game of basketball.

    • Let's play some basket.
另外 11 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    A dance movement in some line dances, where men put their arms round the women's lower backs, and the women put their arms over the men's shoulders, and the group (usually of four, any more is difficult) spins round, which should result in the women's feet leaving the ground.

  • 10

    slangThe penis and region surrounding it.

  • 11

    slangThe bulge of the penis seen through clothing.

  • 12

    obsoleteIn a stage-coach, two outside seats facing each other.

    • In my time, the follies of the town crept slowly among us, but now they travel faster than a stage-coach. Its fopperies come down not only as inside passengers, but in the very basket.
  • 13

    archaicA protection for the hand on a sword or a singlestick; a guard of a bladed weapon.

  • 14

    archaicA protection for the hand on a sword or a singlestick; a guard of a bladed weapon.

    • Baw! damme, but I'll fight you both, one after the other——with baskets.
  • 15

    A usually disc-like piece attached near the bottom of a ski pole to prevent it from sinking too deep into the snow.

  • 16

    ballooninghobbieslifestyleThe gondola or wicker basket suspended from the balloon, in which the pilot and passengers travel.

    • Like most human activities, ballooning has sponsored heroes and hucksters and a good deal in between. For every dedicated scientist patiently recording atmospheric pressure and wind speed while shivering at high altitudes, there is a carnival barker with a bevy of pretty girls willing to dangle from a basket or parachute down to earth.
  • 17

    architectureThe bell or vase of the Corinthian capital.

    • Thus the capital of the Corinthian column always resembles a deep narrow basket covered with a tile, and completely surrounded by foliage
  • 18

    informalBastard.

    • Wait till I catch you, you little basket!
  • 19

    governmentmilitarypoliticsA drogue (or para-drogue) in the probe-and-drogue refueling method

    • Don't smoosh the basket.

basketverb/ˈbɑːskɪt/

  • 1

    To place in a basket or baskets.

  • 2

    mediapublishingTo cross-collateralize the royalty advances for multiple works so that the creator is not paid until all of those works have achieved a certain level of success.

    • Foreign language paperback, serial and book club would be basketed together in a 50/50 subsidiary rights clause.
    • It may very well be that such "basketing" of hardcover, paperback, movie, and other rights within the divisions of […]

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資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。