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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Our lives are like a house of CARDS.

生活就像是一个纸牌搭成的房子。

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You might say that some see a jigsaw where others see a house of CARDS.

你可以做这样的比喻，当有些人看到一副拼图时，其他人则只看到纸搭的房子。

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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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In the Savings and Loan crisis it was a certain segment of the banking community--the S&L's that seemed to be in trouble but it didn't seem to be then a house of cards that could spread around the country and around the world.

在储贷危机中，只是银行机构中的,一个特定部分-储蓄和存款,陷入了困境,但是这似乎不是一个,能够延伸至整个国家,和整个世界的不切实际的无法实现的计划。

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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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And progress is essential to keep things from collapsing like a house of cards.

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The Irish press has likened these turnabouts to the collapse of a house of cards.

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Except what happened was, is that that growth was built on a house of cards.

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