But then the financial crisis struck, freezing capital inflows as international credit dried up.

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The reference points are water freezing or boiling, and the interpolation is linear and then that morphed into the Kelvin scale as we're going to see later.

参考点是水的冰点和沸点,插值是线性的,随后它被发展成为开氏温标,我们之后会看到。

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