Subject: Go to hell in a hand basket.

迷你對話

A: Last week, your basketball team rebuilt. How was it?

上個星期你們的籃球隊重組了，現在怎么樣？

B: Oh, go to hell in a hand basket. Don’t mention that.

哦，一壞不可收拾，別提了。

地道表達

go to hell in a handbasket

1. 地道表達

Go to hell in a hand basket的字面意思是：坐在吊籃下地獄，比喻為“一壞不可收拾”或“迅速地惡化，墮落或衰退”。其英文解釋為：get rapidly worse and worse or become ruined rapidly。

短語中的hell和handbasket壓頭韻，讀起來瑯瑯上口。因為手籃輕便易于攜帶，故“乘著手籃下地獄”形象地表達了“情況極易變糟”的意思。和普通的表達方式go to hell相比，go to hell in a handbasket（或其變體go to hell in a bucket）更生動有趣。

2. 拓展例句

e.g. The school system in this district is going to hell in a bucket, and no mistake.

這個地區的學校體制突然下降。

e.g. His health is going to hell in a handbasket ever since he started drinking again.

自從他再次飲酒以來，他的身體急劇惡化。

e.g. This old house is just going to hell in a handbasket. It's falling apart everywhere.

這座老宅子迅速倒塌了，土崩瓦解了。

e.g. This food will go to hell in a handbasket on contact with air.

這種食物一接觸到空氣即迅速變壞。

Ps ：rebuild a team：重組隊伍