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A new apartment building in Sydney, Australia, has mysteriously left off the numbers four and 14 from the elevator.
澳大利亚悉尼的一座新公寓楼内，电梯上的数字"4"和"14"神秘消失了。
The disappearance of the two floors is apparently because certain numbers are bad luck or have associations with death among Chinese, who are investing billions of dollars in the Australian property market.
这两个数字的消失是因为某些数字对于中国人来说意味着厄运或者和死亡有联系。这些中国人正向澳大利亚房地产市场投资了数十亿的资金。
In Mandarin Chinese, the sound of the word "four" is very similar for the word "death" and that could be bad luck.
在普通话中，数字"4"和"死"谐音，意味着厄运。
This superstition is referred to as tetraphobia and is common in East Asian and Southeast Asian regions such as China, Japan, Malaysia and Korea.
这种迷信行为被称为四的禁忌，在像中国、日本，马来西亚和韩国等东亚和东南亚地区是很常见的。
A recent estimate from Juwai.com, China's largest international property website puts the figure of Chinese developers' investment in Australian real estate in 2015 at about $5 billion.
据中国最大的海外地产网站居外网最新估计，2015年中国开发商在澳大利亚房地产市场的投资额约为50亿澳元。
Australian real estate prices grew 10.2 per cent in September 2015, despite modest economic growth and record levels of new construction.
尽管经济增速有限，新开工面积创新低，2015年9月的澳洲房地产价格还是增长了10.2%。
With the yuan's purchasing power continuing to grow in Australia, Juwai.com says Chinese buyers may be more inclined to 'convert their money into offshore assets, such as Australian real estate.'
据居外网介绍，由于人民币在澳大利亚的购买力持续上升，中国买家可能更倾向于将自己的钱转换成海外资产，如澳大利亚房产。
The new Sofitel Sydney Harbour Hotel currently under construction behind Darling Harbour has also taken precautions as to not deter foreign buyers, and have simply skipped out on building levels 13 and 14.
报道称，目前正在达令港后面建设的新索菲特悉尼港酒店也采取了不设13层和14层的预防措施，以吸引外国买家。
Furthermore Sydney's tallest residential tower has a level 82, however there are only be 66 physical floors.
此外，悉尼最高的住宅楼实际有66层，但该楼标注有第82层。
The developer of Greenland Centre, China's state-owned Greenland Group has avoided level four, 14, 24 and 34. The 10 floors between level 39 and 50 don't exist, and there is no level 54, 64 or 74.
报道称，中国国企绿地集团开发的绿地中心没有4层、14层、24层和34层。39层到50层不存在，54层、64层和74层也没有出现在楼层图里。
