a house of cards

Our lives are like a house of cards.

生活就像是一个纸牌搭成的房子。

The whole building will come down like a house of cards.

那样整个房子就会像纸牌一样塌下去。

Otherwise the entire system falls apart. It's basically a house of cards.

否则，整个系统就会分崩离析&那样的话，系统就只是一栋有着多张门卡的房子。

The company's financial affairs were in a disastrous stare, and the business was a house of cards that could fail at any time.

该公司的财政事务处于一种灾难性的状况，因而生意很不可靠，随时可能破产。

I'm afraid you've been building a house of cards; no one is going to help you in a scheme like that.

恐怕你一直在考虑的计划是不可靠的空中楼阁，没人会帮助你去搞那样的一个计划。

His authority in society and even in his own home was collapsing like a house of cards!

而且无论在社会上，在家庭中，他的威权又已处处露着败象，成了总崩溃！

The child tried to build a house of cards but it soon fell over.

这孩子试着用牌搭一所房子，可是它一会儿就倒坍了。

I worked in the financial industry and spent years doing something that I slowly but surely realised was a house of cards, Ms O' Neil told me. You observe the incentives at first hand and see how corrupt it is.

我曾在金融业供职，我慢慢地、但肯定地意识到，我多年所做的事情是不可靠的空中楼阁，奥尼尔告诉我，你亲身看到这种激励，并了解它有多么腐败。

Do you ever feel, feel so paper thin like a house of cards, one blow from caving in?

你可曾感觉到，自己跟纸一样薄就像一所卡片搭建的房屋风一吹就会坍塌？

It is a house of cards, as if the true value were known, the books adjusted to reflect the true value, pension funds would be devastated.

这是一屋子的牌，好像其真实价值已为人知了，账务被做了调整，以反映其真实价值，养老金会垮掉。

The regime collapsed like a house of cards.

政权如同纸牌搭的房子般崩溃了。

In June, she married Jay Carson, a former campaign spokesman for Howard Dean and Hillary Clinton who is a producer on "House of Cards" and the father of Treem's nearly 2-year-old son.

她的丈夫杰伊·卡森（Jay Carson）曾是霍华德·迪恩（Howard Dean）和希拉里·克林顿（Hillary Clinton）的竞选发言人，也是《纸牌屋》的制片之一。她和卡森的儿子已经快两岁了。

They do not apart like a house of cards if The Relationship doesn't work out.

如果感情不顺利,男人可不会像一堆积木房子那样顷刻瓦解.

Our401Ks, pension funds, IRAs, and Roths are built on a house of cards, but it is too late: we're trapped in the game.

我们的401K、养老基金、个人养老账户建立在一个空中楼阁之上，太晚了：我们被套在这个游戏中了。

A central arc of House of Cards is the love-hate relationship between Frank and his wife Claire, who represent the ultimate yin and yang of a power partnership-two quirky souls who echo each other's neuroses and potential to help the partnership reach great heights.

《纸牌屋》的剧情核心是弗兰克和妻子克莱尔之间爱恨交织的关系。夫妻二人分别代表了权力合作关系中的两面——两个诡诈的灵魂彼此呼应着对方的神经症和潜力，让这种合作关系达到了不起的高度。

A house of cards Is neat and small; Shake the table, It must fall.

纸牌房子，玲珑小巧，桌子摇摇，定会翻倒。

His proposal was nothing but a house of cards.

他的提议只是空中楼阁.

While cleaning his house, a 70-year-old Texas man discovered a full set of vintage Topps baseball cards from 1957 to 1958, according to The Dallas Morning News. As a joke, Darwin Day, who lives in Grand Prairie, entered the gum company's competition advertised on the back of the cards.

据《达拉斯早间新闻》报道，一位来自德克萨斯70岁的老人在打扫房间时，发现一整套1957-1958年收集的棒球球星卡。老人叫Darwin Day，现居大草原城。他发现卡片背面有知识竞赛的广告，于是就决定参加玩玩。

The empire collapsed like a house of cards, and the republic was again proclaimed.

帝国像纸房一样倒塌了, 共和国又重新宣告成立.

Like a house of cards, one blow from caving in?

就像纸牌搭成的房子不堪一击？

Hence, while America was busy creating a financial house of cards, Asians focused on their real economies.

因此，当美国正忙着建造一个不切实际的金融帝国时，亚洲人却把重点放在他们的实体经济上。

I tried to build a house of cards but is soon toppled down.

我试着用纸牌搭房子,但搭起来的房子一下就散塌了.

But the Federation is like a house of cards: disturb one and the whole structure wobbles.

但是这个联合会就像纸牌搭的房子,只要动一动某一方,整个机构就会跟着颤动起来.

Mild spoiler alert: In the second episode of House of Cards, Claire Underwood fires half of the staff of her nonprofit without so much as misplacing a strand of her perfectly coiffed pixie cut.

轻微剧透：《纸牌屋》第二集中，克莱尔安德伍德炒掉了其非盈利组织中一半员工。当时，她精心做过的发型甚至都没有一丝纷乱。

Treem, a playwright and "House of Cards" writer, created "The Affair" with Hagai Levi, with whom she also worked on HBO's "In Treatment."

特里姆是一个剧作家，也是《纸牌屋》（House of Cards）的编剧。她与哈盖·列维（Hagai Levi）共同创作了《婚外情》，二人也在HBO剧集《扪心问诊》（In Treatment）中有过合作。

I must admit, that to fulfill my House of Cards longing during the summer of 2014, I cheated a bit and watched the final season of the original British version of the show, House of Cards: the Final Cut.

我必须承认，去年夏天为了满足我自己对《纸牌屋》的期望，我去看了这部剧英国版本的最后一季。

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。

This is a house of cards waiting to fall down. And it eventually does.

他们就像一个摇摇欲坠的纸房子，最终真的就轰然倒塌。