A new apartment building in Sydney has mysteriously left off the numbers four and 14 from the elevator. 

在澳大利亚悉尼的一座新公寓楼内，电梯楼层按钮面板上的两个数字“4”和“14”神秘消失了。

 

The disappearance¹ of the two floors is apparently² because certain numbers are bad luck or have associations with death among Chinese, who are investing billions of dollars in the Australian property market. 

这两个楼层的消失显然是因为在中国人看来，某些数字代表霉运或与死亡有关。中国人在澳大利亚房地产市场已投资数十亿美元。

 

In Mandarin³ Chinese, the look and sound of the word for '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，一些中国人觉得不吉利。

 

This superstition⁴ is referred to as tetraphobia and is common in East Asian and Southeast Asian regions such as China, Japan, Malaysia and Korea. 

这种迷信被称为“恐四症”，在中国、日本、马来西亚和韩国等东亚和东南亚国家和地区非常普遍。