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

• I want you to extrapolate his path.
  我要你推断他的路径。
• New lightweight agile domains are now available to help extrapolate designs.
  现在有新的轻量型敏捷域可用于帮助推断设计。
• 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。
• You may also want to only do detailed logging on a random fraction of requests and extrapolate from there.
  您还可能会想只对请求的一个随机部分执行详细的日志记录，然后从中进行普遍性推断。
• Their stock price, if you extrapolate that out for today, the point is about here after splits.
  如果我们估计他们现在股票的价格，差不多到这里。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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 is no longer necessary to extrapolate from a small sample of data; now it is possible to analyse an entire dataset.
  今后再没有必要只根据小范围的数据样本进行推断了；现在已有可能做到分析整个数据集。
• 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。