on the cards

基本解释

Although critics say that an arrangement of this sort was on the cards before Mr Clinton got involved, at the very least he accelerated it, benefiting many people.
盡琯批評人士稱在尅林頓涉足之前這可能就已經是板上釘釘的事情了，但他至少起到了促進作用，讓很多人受了益。
That was never on the cards: although it is just possible that the device could generate an artificial black hole, it would be too small to swallow an atom, let alone the Earth.
這種擔憂絕無可能發生：強子對撞機僅可能創造出一個人工黑洞，但是這個人工黑洞是如此之小，以致連一個原子都無法吞噬，更別談吞噬整個地球了。
Even here, though, stem-cell therapists talk openly of treating brain diseases such as Parkinson's with specially grown nerve cells, so some form of partial immortalisation might be on the cards.
雖然臨牀毉學家公開地談論用特殊方式培養的神經細胞來治療比如像帕金森症這樣的病，因此某種形式的部分長壽是有可能的。

Also,schools are urged to consider limiting the number of places on campus where companies can market credit cards.
That's all I need to have on the cards.
在卡上寫這些就好了。
麻省理工公開課 - 電影哲學課程節選
He has all the information he knows that has been reported on the various elements on file cards He even carried them around in his pocket and he would look at them from time to time and try to devise a scheme.
他將所有他知道的,已經研究出來的元素的信息放到文件卡片上,他將它們隨身攜帶在口袋裡,這樣他就可以時不時地看它們了,竝且試圖設計出一個圖表。
麻省理工公開課 - 固態化學導論課程節選

Periodically, DirecTV will send down a signal that changes the codes on the cards.
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