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A new apartment building in Sydney, Australia, has mysteriously left off the numbers four and 14 from the elevator.
澳大利亞悉尼的一座新公寓樓內，電梯上的數字"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.
這兩個數字的消失是因為某些數字對于中國人來說意味著厄運或者和死亡有聯系。這些中國人正向澳大利亞房地產市場投資了數十億的資金。
In Mandarin Chinese, the sound of the word "four" is very similar for the word "death" and that could be bad luck.
在普通話中，數字"4"和"死"諧音，意味著厄運。
This superstition is referred to as tetraphobia and is common in East Asian and Southeast Asian regions such as China, Japan, Malaysia and Korea.
這種迷信行為被稱為四的禁忌，在像中國、日本，馬來西亞和韓國等東亞和東南亞地區是很常見的。
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.
據中國最大的海外地產網站居外網最新估計，2015年中國開發商在澳大利亞房地產市場的投資額約為50億澳元。
Australian real estate prices grew 10.2 per cent in September 2015, despite modest economic growth and record levels of new construction.
盡管經濟增速有限，新開工面積創新低，2015年9月的澳洲房地產價格還是增長了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.'
據居外網介紹，由于人民幣在澳大利亞的購買力持續上升，中國買家可能更傾向于將自己的錢轉換成海外資產，如澳大利亞房產。
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.
報道稱，目前正在達令港后面建設的新索菲特悉尼港酒店也采取了不設13層和14層的預防措施，以吸引外國買家。
Furthermore Sydney's tallest residential tower has a level 82, however there are only be 66 physical floors.
此外，悉尼最高的住宅樓實際有66層，但該樓標注有第82層。
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.
報道稱，中國國企綠地集團開發的綠地中心沒有4層、14層、24層和34層。39層到50層不存在，54層、64層和74層也沒有出現在樓層圖里。
