Why no! Not at all. I'm just busy, that's all. You see, we're holding meetings in Jacobsen's Hall every evening.

没有！完全不是。我只是很忙而已。你看，我们每晚都在雅各布森会议室开会。

Jacobsen's dramatic trip to freedom capped a week of swirling diplomatic activity in the Middle East, centered on Britain's break in diplomatic relations with Syria on October 24.

雅各布森戏剧性的自由之行为中东为期一周的外交活动奠定了句号，外交活动围绕着英国在10月24日与叙利亚的外交关系中断。

Waite, whose patient efforts to end the hostage crisis were well known to Syria, made a secret visit to Damascus on Saturday, evidently to arrange the details of Jacobsen's release.

⻙特为结束⼈质危机所做的耐⼼努⼒在叙利亚⼴为⼈知，他于周六秘密访问⼤⻢⼠⾰，显然是为了安排雅各布森获释的细节。

When one of the other hostages, Father Lawrence Jenco, a Roman Catholic relief- agency official, was freed by his captors in July, he carried with him a videotape recording of Jacobsen.

当其中一个另外的的人质，罗⻢天主教救济机构官员劳伦斯詹科神⽗在 7 ⽉被绑架者释放时，他随身携带了雅各布森的录像带。

Although State Department officials insisted that no deal was in the works, the terrorist group said in a statement following Jacobsen's release that the US had embarked on " approaches that could lead, if continued, to a solution of the hostages issue."

尽管国务院官员坚称没有达成任何协议，但该恐怖组织在雅各布森获释后发表声明称，美国已经开始了使⼈质问题得到解决的⽅法”，如果继续下去的话。