extrapolate

英 [ɪkˈstræpəleɪt]

美 [ɪkˈstræpəleɪt]

v.  推断; 推知; 外推

现在分词：extrapolating　过去分词：extrapolated　过去式：extrapolated　第三人称单数：extrapolates　复数：extrapolates　

GRETEM8

BNC.15251 / COCA.14252

牛津词典

verb

• 推断；推知；外推
  to estimate sth or form an opinion about sth, using the facts that you have now and that are valid for one situation and supposing that they will be valid for the new one
  1. The figures were obtained by extrapolating from past trends.
     这些数据是从过去的趋势推断出来的。
  2. We have extrapolated these results from research done in other countries.
     我们从其他国家所作的研究中推断出这些结果。

柯林斯词典

• VERB 推断;推知
  If youextrapolate fromknown facts, you use them as a basis for general statements about a situation or about what is likely to happen in the future.
  1. Extrapolating from his American findings, he reckons about 80% of these deaths might be attributed to smoking...
     根据他在美国的调查结果推断，他估计这些人中约有80％可能死于吸烟。
  2. It is unhelpful to extrapolate general trends from one case.
     根据一个案例来推断总的趋势是没有用的。

英英释义

verb

• gain knowledge of (an area not known or experienced) by extrapolating
• estimate the value of
  Synonym:interpolate
• draw from specific cases for more general cases
  Synonym:generalizegeneraliseinfer

双语例句

• It is unhelpful to extrapolate general trends from one case.
  根据一个案例来推断总的趋势是没有用的。
• Because we extrapolate from what has happened in the past to what will happen in the future. I have lost you I can see.
  因为我们从过去发生的事情推断，将来会发生的事，我觉得你们有点晕了。
• The answer is yes, but on conditions that seem increasingly implausible if we extrapolate current policies.
  答案是肯定的，但有一些前提条件。如果我们延续当前的政策，这些前提条件似乎越来越无法成立。
• To determine the human dose-response curve, one must extrapolate down from the high-dose laboratory data.
  要确定人类的剂量反应曲线，就必须从高剂量的实验室数据进行外推。
• What kind of information can you extrapolate from team velocity?
  可以从团队进度中推断出哪些信息。
• You can't extrapolate from Shanghai or Beijing.
  你不能根据上海或北京的情况进行推断。
• Subsequently, when the application gets developed, process a small number of files and extrapolate from the numbers.
  随后，进行了应用程序开发之后，处理少量的文件，并根据得到的数据进行推断。
• You assume the future will be like the past, or you extrapolate a trend.
  他们假设未来将与过去类似，或按照目前的趋势进行推演。
• We see lots of observations and therefore we naturally extrapolate to a generalization like this.
  我们有许多观察所以我们，自然地推断这样的推广。
• It also enables us to extrapolate the present soul structure and its possible connection to the future soul form.
  它也是我们能预测现在的灵魂构造以及它连接灵魂未来形式的可能性。