"My business is too urgent to waste time on apologies" (John Buchan).

“我的生意特别紧要，不能把时间浪费在道歉上”(约翰·巴肯)。

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David Buchan is a senior research fellow at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies.

大卫·巴肯是牛津能源研究所的高级研究员。

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The reports reveal that fishing activity in the Buchan region dropped from 300,000 hours a year in 1938 to practically zero after the war started in 1939.

报告显示，巴肯地区1938年全年的捕鱼时长为300000小时，而1939年二战爆发以后，这一数字则几乎降为零。

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Mr Buchan said companies were confident their fortunes would pick up in the near future.

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Previous winners of the biography prize include Lytton Strachey, John Buchan, Lady Antonia Fraser and Quentin Bell.

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The final word, however, goes to Jim Buchan who gave me two absolute rules for my toast.

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