Pick up Chinese from the lines in ‘House of Cards’

Who has watched the popular US TV series "House of Cards"? Here we sort out 7 classic lines from the drama for you to learn some Chinese.

谁已经看了大热美剧《纸牌屋》了？以下我们为你整理了剧中7句经典台词，大家趁机学点中文吧！

1# For those of us climbing to the top of the food chain, there can be no mercy. There is but one rule: hunt or be hunted.

对我们这些好不容易爬到食物链顶层的人来说，毫无仁慈可言。只有一个规则：猎杀别人或者被别人猎杀。

(duì wǒ men zhè xiē hǎo bú róng yì pá dào shí wù liàn dǐng céng de rén lái shuō, háo wú rén cí kě yán. zhī yǒu yī gè guī zé: liè shā bié rén huò zhě bèi bié rén liè shā.)

2# The nature of promises, Linda, is that they remain immune to changing circumstances.

承诺的本质是它不会随着外界因素的改变而改变。

(chéng nuò de běn zhì shì tā bú huì suí zhe wài jiè yīn sù de gǎi biàn ér gǎi biàn.)

3# To improve is to change. To perfect is to change often.

提高自己意味着改变，提高到完美意味着不断地改变。

(tí gāo zì jǐ yì wèi zhe gǎi biàn, tí gāo dào wán měi yì wèi zhe bú duàn de gǎi biàn.)

4# From this moment on, you are a rock. You absorb nothing, you say nothing and nothing breaks you.

从这一刻开始，你就是一块石头。你什么也不会吸收进来，什么也不会说出去，没有任何事能打到你。

(cóng zhè yī kè kāi shǐ, nǐ jiù shì yī kuài shí tóu. nǐ shén me yě bú huì xī shōu jìn lái, shén me yě bú huì shuō chū qù, méi yǒu rèn hé shì néng dǎ dào nǐ.)

5# Friends make the worst enemies.

朋友是你最大的敌人。

(péng yǒu shì nǐ zuì dà de dí rén.)

6# Give him your heart. Cut it out and put it in his fucking hands.

把你的心交给他，把心切开，然后把它放到他的手中。

(bǎ nǐ de xīn jiāo gěi tā, bǎ xīn qiē kāi, rán hòu bǎ tā fàng dào tā de shǒu zhōng.)

7# There's no better way to overpower a trickle of doubt than with a flood of naked truth.

粉碎怀疑的最佳办法就是展示血淋淋的现实。

(fěn suì huái yí de zuì jiā bàn fǎ jiù shì zhǎn shì xuè lín lín de xiàn shí.)

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