目前大卫·芬奇(David Fincher)操刀为Netflix制作的大热原创美剧《纸牌屋》(House of Cards)广受追捧，剧中凯文·史派西(Kevin Spacey)主演一个冷血无情的美国国会议员及与他同样野心勃勃的妻子在华盛顿高层当中「运作权力」的故事。今天我们节目就来和大家聊聊剧中涉及到的美国国会知识，坐稳听好了哦！

课程词汇精选：

1. Nice to have you back. 欢迎回来。
2. House of Cards 纸牌屋
3. House of cards is a game that you play with poker cards. 纸牌屋就是用纸牌玩的游戏。
4. You take the cards and you try to build a building as high as you can with your cards. 你用纸牌尽可能的搭起一个楼。
5. fragile 脆弱的
6. Very fragile, very unstable. At any second, you know, you can even just like blow it, phew, and it's all gone.
非常脆弱，非常不稳定。任何时刻，你知道的，你都可以轻轻一吹，就全倒了。
7. metaphor 暗喻
8. Francis(Frank) J. Underwood 弗兰西斯.安德伍德
9. Kevin Spacey 凯文·史派西
10. They are saying that TV is becoming bigger and more important than movies. 他们说电视剧变得越来越重要，甚至超过了电影。
11.golden age of television 电视行业的黄金时代
12. David Fincher 大卫·芬奇
13. The Social Network 社交网络
14. play 出演
15. He starts off as the majority whip of the house. 他上任初期出任的是多数党的党鞭。
16. majority whip 多数党党鞭
17. minority whip 少数党党鞭
18. the House (of Representatives) 众议院
19. the Senate 参议院
20. whip the votes 拉票
21. savvy 机智的
22. conspiracy 阴谋
23. conspiracy theory 阴谋论
24. political marriage 政治婚姻
25. lovey-dovey 卿卿我我
26. streaming 流媒体
27. daring 大胆的
28. It paid off. 物超所值了。
29. subscriber 订阅者
30. cosmetic ads 化妆品广告
31. binge-watching 一口气看完