英译汉When America Online and Time Warner announced their merger in January 2000, at the

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When America Online and Time Warner announced their merger in January 2000, at the height of the Internet boom, this mega-marriage of new technology and old media was enthusiastically received. The world's biggest online service was expected to inject its "Internet DNA" into the stodgy media giant. Together they -would come up with all sorts of lucrative synergies and "cross-fertilization". Even the Economist was excited: "For once, the superlatives and the hype seem justified," we opinioned.