/kɑ:d ||; kɑrd/noun1 [U] thick rigid paper 厚纸片；薄纸板
2 [C] a piece of card or plastic that has information on it 卡片: Here is my business card in case you need to contact me. 这是我的名片，万一你需要跟我联系。a membership/identity/credit card 会员证；身分证；信用卡
3 [C] a piece of card with a picture on it that you use for sending a special message to sb 贺卡；问候卡: a Christmas/birthday card 圣诞卡；生日卡a get-well card (= one that you send to sb who is ill) 康复卡
4 (also playing card) [C] one of a set of 52 small pieces of card with shapes or pictures on them that are used for playing games 纸牌；扑克牌: a pack of cards 一副纸牌
5 cards [pl] games that are played with cards 纸牌戏: Let's play cards. 我们玩牌吧。Let's have a game of cards. 我们玩一局牌吧。I never win at cards! 我玩纸牌从没赢过！
A pack of cards is divided into four suits, two red (hearts and diamonds) and two black (clubs and spades). Each suit has an ace, a king, a queen, a jack and nine other cards, numbered from 2 to 10. Before we play cards we shuffle, cut and deal the cards. 一副纸牌(a pack of cards)分为四组花色(suit)，两组红（一组红心(heart)，一组方块(diamond)），两组黑（一组梅花(club)，一组黑桃(spade)）。每组有爱司(ace)、老Ｋ(king)、王后(queen)、杰克(jack)跟九张由2到10的牌。玩牌之前要洗牌(shuffle)、切牌(cut)和发牌(deal)。 ☞picture at sport 见sport插图 on the cards (
US 美) ;
in the cards(
informal 非正式) likely to happen 可能发生:
Their marriage break-up has been on the cards for some time now. 他们的婚姻存在破裂的可能性已经有一段时间了。