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Would you agree with this translation?

 

长虹为首的“大老虎”惊醒时,TCL已经杀入了彩电三强。

 

At the time when the "old tiger", market leader Changhong,  woke up to the new situation, TCL had already boxed its way into the top 3 among  colour TV companies.

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[当 [[[[长虹为首] 的] “大老虎”] 惊醒] 时]

 

以...为...

 

...的X

 

当...时, ...

 

Those are the three relevant patterns. In order to arrive at your translation, you would have had to have misinterpreted the first and to a lesser extent second one.

 

以...为... <- to take something to be something, to use something as something, to consider something as something, with something as something, etc.

 

以...为主

以...为首

以...为天

 

all follow that pattern.

 

首 implies there is more than one. The ...的X can be more wordily represented with "the X that ..."

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When the “big tigers”, among which Changhong was the leader, woke up to...

 

为首的“大老虎” = as first of big old tiger(s) Aha!

 

长虹为首的“大老虎”惊醒时,TCL已经杀入了彩电三强。

 

By the time that Changhong, as leader of the old guard woke up to the new situation, TCL had already boxed its way into the top 3 of the colour TV industry.  Better?

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Aha, thanks!

 

长虹为首的“大老虎”惊醒时,TCL已经杀入了彩电三强。

 

By the time the old guard , with Changhong as its leader, woke up to the new situation, TCL had already boxed its way into the top 3 of the colour TV industry.  Better?

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I think old guard is an odd translation.

 

Also, I gave you the word segmentation, "[以长虹为首]的" and you still separated it as "[为首]的". When you see that 的, you need to be able to identify where the modifying clause starts otherwise you're going to make mistakes.

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