因为没有人会想成为买另一个社交网络的人，或者去监督那段苦涩的婚姻：美国在线与时代华纳，或者说是砍掉很多的工作岗位和就此认输，对吗？

Because nobody wants be the guy who buys another Bebo, or oversees a sour marriage like AOL Time Warner, or cuts thousands of jobs and throws in the towel, right?

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MSN和雅虎都想购买部分或全部的美国在线，这家时代华纳旗下规模庞大而身陷困境的因特网服务供应商。

MSN and Yahoo! Both wanted to buy some or all of AOL, a big, troubled internet-access company owned by Time Warner, a media conglomerate.

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他相信美国在线和时代华纳的合并是上个周期的转折点。

The turning point of the last cycle, he believes, was the merger of AOL and Time Warner.

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