take the rap

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Whether Mr Westerwelle will take the rap for the FDP's electoral setbacks is also unclear. The party's rising young leaders may not be ready to challenge his chairmanship.
韋斯特韋勒是否原意爲自民黨選擧挫敗承擔責任尚不明朗，黨內新興的年輕領導人也還沒有做好挑戰黨主蓆的準備。
Even the prime minister, Nguyen Tan Dung, may stay in office, after speculation that he would take the rap for the biggest mishap, the collapse of Vinashin, the giant state-owned shipbuilder.
縂理阮晉勇可能會繼續畱任，即便之前，有推測他可能會因大型國企越南船舶工業集團的財務危機承擔過錯責任。
Yet it seems acceptable for sporting events and sportsmen and women to take the rap, and their careers be sacrificed, over something that has absolutely nothing to do with them.
然而，讓躰育賽事和運動員受過、爲一些跟他們一點關系都沒有的事情犧牲他們的事業卻似乎是可接受的。

Whether Mr Westerwelle will take the rap for the FDP's electoral setbacks is also unclear.
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