a container for holding or carrying things. Baskets are made of long thin pieces of material that bends and twists easily, for example plastic, wire or wicker. 篮；篓；筐 
a shopping basket 购物篮 a picnic basket 野餐篮子 a clothes/laundry basket (= in which dirty clothes are put before being washed) （存放待洗衣服的）脏衣篮 a wicker/wire basket 柳条筐；铁丝筐 a cat/dog basket (= in which a cat or dog sleeps or is carried around) 猫篮；狗篮
Extra ExamplesTopics Shoppingb2She heaved the huge basket onto the table. 她用力搬起大筐子放到桌上。 She was cycling along with her bicycle basket full of groceries. 她骑着自行车，车筐里装满了食品杂货。 The cat lay curled in its basket. 猫蜷缩在篮里。 On the table was a basket filled with delicious fruit. 桌子上有一个装满美味水果的篮子。 There were hanging baskets full of summer flowers. 那里有装满夏花的吊篮。 She found a basket of fruit waiting for her in the hotel room. 她发现旅馆房间里有一篮送给她的水果。 The logs were in a wicker basket next to the fireplace. 木柴放在壁炉旁边的柳条筐里。 We packed a picnic basket and set off for the beach. 我们收拾好野餐篮子，出发去海滩。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- bamboo
- plastic
- straw
- …
- make
- weave
- fill
- …
- be filled with something
- be full of something
- contain something
- …
- in a/the basket
- into a/the basket
- basket of
- …
the amount contained in a basket 一篮，一筐，一篓（的量） a basket of fruit 一筐水果
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- bamboo
- plastic
- straw
- …
- make
- weave
- fill
- …
- be filled with something
- be full of something
- contain something
- …
- in a/the basket
- into a/the basket
- basket of
- …
- (also cart, shopping cart both especially North American English)
a facility on a website that records the items that you select to buy （网站上的）购物篮，购物车 Click to drop items into your shopping basket. 点击将商品放入购物车。 82 per cent of shoppers have abandoned an online shopping basket in the last year. 去年，82%的购物者放弃了网上购物篮。
the net and the metal ring it hangs from, high up at each end of a basketball court; a point that is scored by throwing the ball through this net （篮球运动的）篮；投篮得分 
to make/shoot a basket 投球得分／入篮
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverb + basket- shoot
- make
- score
- …
- (
economics 经济学 a number of different goods or currencies 一组（不同的物品或货币） the value of the rupee against a basket of currencies 卢比对各种货币的比值
Word OriginMiddle English: from Old French basket, of unknown ultimate origin.
Idioms
put all your eggs in one basket
to rely on one particular course of action for success rather than giving yourself several different possibilities 寄希望于一件事情上 I’ve applied for several jobs. I don’t want to put all my eggs in one basket. 我已经申请了几份工作。我不想孤注一掷。