双语趣听精彩世界 第74期:中国女游客拉动韩国化妆品行业发展

 　　据韩联社报道,随着中国女性游客购买力的增长,她们有望成为拉动韩国免税店和化妆品行业发展的主力军.

　　中国女游客拉动韩国化妆品行业发展

　　South Korea's Yohaps News: Cosmetics² companies and duty-free shops in South Korea are seeing a continuous rise in stock prices because of soaring numbers of Chinese female tourists, that's according to a report by Huanqiu website.

　　The Chinese made 574,000 travels to South Korea in June, accounting³ for 45 percent of all foreign tourists. The report quoting statistics from South Korean financial investment and tourism information system, among those Chinese travelers, 305,000 of them were female.

　　The custom data showed, in June, cosmetics exports to China, including Hong Kong and Taiwan, alone accounted for 54.7 percent of the total South Korean exports of cosmetic¹.

　　With considerable purchasing power, Chinese female tourists became South Korea's market focus. A researcher at South Korea SK Securities Co Ltd said Chinese women are expected to be the main force to boost the development of South Korean duty-free shops and cosmetics industry as they gradually become key players in consumption.

　　South Korean cosmetics makers⁴ LG Household & Health Care Co Ltd and AmorePacific saw their stock prices rise 8 percent and 20 percent respectively during the period between July 1 and August 1.

1 cosmetic   

n.化妆品；adj.化妆用的；装门面的；装饰性的

参考例句：

• These changes are purely cosmetic.这些改变纯粹是装饰门面。
• Laughter is the best cosmetic,so grin and wear it!微笑是最好的化妆品，所以请尽情微笑吧！

2 cosmetics   

n.化妆品

参考例句：

• We sell a wide range of cosmetics at a very reasonable price. 我们以公道的价格出售各种化妆品。
• Cosmetics do not always cover up the deficiencies of nature. 化妆品未能掩饰天生的缺陷。

3 accounting   

n.会计，会计学，借贷对照表

参考例句：

• A job fell vacant in the accounting department.财会部出现了一个空缺。
• There's an accounting error in this entry.这笔账目里有差错。

4 makers   

n.制造者，制造商（maker的复数形式）

参考例句：

• The makers of the product assured us that there had been no sacrifice of quality. 这一产品的制造商向我们保证说他们没有牺牲质量。
• The makers are about to launch out a new product. 制造商们马上要生产一种新产品。 来自《简明英汉词典》