“in the cards”的意思和“卡片”没什么关系？

对话原文

I'm gonna go.

我要走了

No, I don't want you to go.

我不想让你走

I got to think about some stuff.

我要考虑点事情

What do you got to think about, huh?

你要考虑什么

Come here and talk to me.

就在这儿和我说说

Talk to me!

和我说啊

about what? You want

考虑什么 你…… 

you're going away!

你要走了 

You're leaving.

你要离开这儿了 

And I'm staying here.

而我要留在这里

And I'm so happy that you're doing it,

你去上大学 我也很高兴

but you're gonna have a million things to do.

你会有很多事情可做 

No.

不 

You got so much ahead of you.

你的前途一定很美好 

Don't talk like that.

别这么说

It's true.

事实就是这样的

I'm not going to have nice things, fancy things.

我没有什么好的 没有什么特别的 

It's never gonna happen for me. It's not in the cards for me.

这不会发生在我身上 命里注定的

I don't have to go to school, okay?

我不一定要去上学的

Yes, you do.

不 你要去 

I can stay here.

我可以呆在这里

No. Do you see, that's exactly what I am talking about.

不 好了我想说的就是这些

Then you can come with me.

那你可以和我一起走

To New York?

去纽约 

Yes.

是啊 

What am I going to do in New York?

我去纽约能干什么呢 

Be with me?

和我在一起

今日重点：

百万：million。数字+million时million不要加-s。millions of 成千上万的

在…前面：ahead of

精致的：fancy。这个词也可作动词表示“喜欢”，I fancy you. 我喜欢你

似乎会发生的：in the cards

（来源：沪江英语）