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 then used this to extrapolate back the origins of language to Africa.
  由此推断出语言的发源地为非洲。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• You observe that nature had been like this for all the time before and then you extrapolate in the future and think it will be like that every time in the future.
  你观察到自然一直都这样，然后你推断将来，认为这在将来每时每刻都会一样。
• One can extrapolate the size of the building from the measurements of an average room.
  从一间屋子的量度可以推断出整座建筑物的大小。
• This work also offers a reminder: If you just extrapolate from the recent past to predict the economic future, you are likely to be wrong.
  这项研究还提醒我们：如果你仅仅根据近期状况来预测未来经济走向，你的预测很可能是错的。
• Because there were so few work days in January, statisticians had to extrapolate to produce figures for the full month, but economists suspect that they may have overestimated industrial activity in the process.
  由于1月份工作日这么少，因此统计人员不得不推算得出全月的数据，但经济学家们怀疑，在此过程中他们可能过高估算了工业活动。
• We're asking ourselves whether it is possible to extrapolate from past to future legitimately.
  我们质问自身，是否有可能合理地从过去中推断未来。
• A week is not enough data to extrapolate the effectiveness of TDD on a multi-month or multi-year project.
  一个星期所产出的数据是没法衡量在长达数月或是数年的项目中TDD的效用的。