Paraphrasing (19th paragraph)

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For its part, Asimco in 1995 bought a controlling stake in Five Star, then an 80- year-old state-owned brewery in Beijing. Jack Perkowski, Asimco’s Beijing-based chairman, believes the brand — overhauled, repackaged and resold at a premium — can give Tsingtao a run for its money in overseas markets.

The main idea of the paragraph

One more case, Asimco bought a controlling stake in Five Star, planning to take the brand international.

另一个例子, Asimco公司收购五星啤酒公司,然后将其推向世界。

词语解释

for one’s part

So far as one is concerned 就某人而言,e.g.

For my part, I prefer living in the country.

句子分析

Jack Perkowski, Asimco’s Beijing-based chairman, believes the brand – overhauled, repackaged and resold at a premium – can give Tsingtao a run for its money in overseas markets.

1)“Jack Perkowski, Asimco’s Beijing-based chairman, believes”是主句,其中,“Asimco’s Beijing-based chairman”是主语“Jack Perkowski”的同位语,说明其身份。

2)“(that) the brand – overhauled, repackaged and resold at a premium – can give Tsingtao a run for its money in overseas markets”是宾语从句,其中,破折号内的过去分词短语“overhauled, repackaged and resold at a premium”作条件状语,相当于一个状语从句if it is overhauled, repackaged and resold at a premium。

3)give sb a run for his or her money

to provide somebody with some serious, sometimes unexpected competition 使…遭遇剧烈竞争,e.g.

They've given some of the top teams a run for their money this season.