The film is a house of cards. If one scene fails to hold, the entire credibility of the film comes crashing down.

这部电影可能失败，如果一个场景失败了，那整个电影的可信度就崩溃了。

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If you build a toy house with a pack of cards, a slight shake of the table will make it fall.

如果你用纸牌搭一个玩具房子，桌子轻微的震动就会使它倒塌。

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It was probably very close to my house but I couldn't find it and had to cancel my credit cards.

它可能离我家很近，但是我找不到，只好取消了信用卡。

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So there was bigger meal. There was a girlfriend involved, sometimes invited over to our house as well for the meal, and part of the family, and cards back and forth.

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It's not considered good form to say, I think we're about to have a crisis of confidence and the whole house of cards is going to collapse.

说我认为我们即将有个信心危机，或者所有计划都将破灭,是不明智的。

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The Fed is worried about a collapsing house of cards.

美联储担忧的是,一个失败的不切实际无法实现的计划。

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"The current refinancing situation in the top-flight is like a financial house cards which could come crashing down at any time, " he told CNN.

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But BTIG analyst Richard Greenfield thinks that if House Of Cards is a success, Netflix could also start demanding a fee from the broadband suppliers that plug their fat pipes into our homes and let us stream House Of Cards in the first place.

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They will try to build a case against me, but they know and I know it will be built of air, of smoke, of the cards that make up the house of cards in which I have been living.

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