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This excerpt is one of the Tiger Team supernatural mystery novels for adolescents. The Tiger Team series was originally created in German by author <a href="http://www.thomasbrezina.co.uk/buecher-serien/?sid=ca3599a37c59e0c87d1b27da100ae194">Thomas C. Brezina</a>, and features a band of young detectives: Jupiter Katz, son of a supernatural researcher Erasmus Katz, Jupiter's cousin Vicky and Vicky's little brother Nick. 

I found this Chinese translation of the Tiger Team novel "Ghost Hotel" in my local bookstore, and I've manually typed in the first few paragraphs of the book, which describes a dilapidated, mostly-abandoned hotel: the location of this horror novel. This is interesting practice in reading longer descriptions, and includes many words that are strictly book-language: you're not likely to run into them in daily conversation. There's probably an actual English version of this book, but I can't easily get my hands on this, so bear in mind you're not reading the official English translation. 
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<h4>Click to Listen</h4>
独生子 - [pinyin]du2 sheng1 zi3[/pinyin] - Only child
养 - [pinyin]yang3[/pinyin] - To raise
解闷 - [pinyin]jie3 men4[/pinyin] - Relieve bordom
放走 - [pinyin]fang4 zou3[/pinyin] - To let go, to free (an animal)
陪伴 - [pinyin]pei ban4[/pinyin] - To accompany, be with
忠臣 - [pinyin]zhong1 chen2[/pinyin] - Loyal subject
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那栋房子是木质结构的， 看起来就像是婚礼蛋糕。 它总共有四层，越向上越狭窄，所以最高的那层就只是一座带有小小玻璃穹顶的尖塔了。

灰蒙蒙的木头外墙已经腐朽不堪， 黑色的穹顶上好像也被戳了好几个窟窿。

窗户都是拱形，数目远远大于实际需要，它们被开在高处， 上面还钉了好多木条。

这栋房子从1911年起就矗立在这座孤零零的山丘上。有时候，附近的农民发现这栋房子会像磁铁一样，吸引着乌云，雷电，冰雹和风雨。

如果谁在夏天的时候走近这栋房子，就会发现这里奇特现象：房子周围为数不多的那几棵树都是光秃秃的。 树枝如同黝黑的手臂， 高高地指向天空。

这块地被低矮的木栅栏圈在当中， 有几处已经被人损坏， 木条都不知下落了。 甚至， 有的地方已经完全被杂草所掩埋。

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The building was constructed of wood, and looked like a wedding cake. Altogether, it had four floors, each narrower than the one below, to the topmost floor was just a small glass domed-topped minaret. 

The gloomy outer wall was already in a state of extreme disrepair, and the dark 灰蒙蒙的木头外墙已经腐朽不堪， 黑色的穹顶上好像也被戳了好几个窟窿。
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