She was prepared to take the rap for the shoplifting, though it had been her sister's idea.

尽管在商店偷东西是她妹妹的主意，可她甘愿为此受罚。

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If the problem can not be solved immediately, he has to take the rap.

如果问题不能马上得到解决，他只能接受指责。

youdao

I don't want to take the rap for Mary, who forgot to mail the check in time.

玛丽忘了及时邮寄支票，我可不想替她承担这个责任。

youdao

If he fails to find a consensus, though, he will have to take the rap for what is sure to be a very unpopular reform.

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Mr Schroeder's failure to take the rap with good grace has only won him more criticism for quibbling rather than tackling the problem head on.

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Rand also noted that only an ethic of rational selfishness can justify the pursuit of profit that is the basis of capitalism -- and that so long as self-interest is tainted by moral suspicion, the profit motive will continue to take the rap for every imaginable (or imagined) social ill and economic disaster.

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