As he handed the basket to his wife, a sudden rush of cool rain put out the fire.

VOA: special.2009.02.28

We started out with just a simple idea: that you don't want to put all your eggs in one basket and if you had a lot of independent stocks you would want to just weight them equally.

我们从一个简单的想法开始：,你不想把所有的鸡蛋放入一个篮子里,如果你有许多互相独立的股票,你给它们相同的权重。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

It falls into the basket and that completes a hole. If for some reason the discdoesn't fall into the basket, you still need to tap out and into the basket."

VOA: standard.2010.08.03