Media members both embraced and enhanced these hints, to the point that there were breathless newspaper, Internet and broadcast reports of an impending trade almost daily for the last week.

• 记者们不但接了波，而且大肆鼓吹之，以致过去的一周，报纸、网络和电台都在大肆报道日益临近的交易，一个个忙得气喘吁吁。