extrapolating

英 [ɪkˈstræpəleɪtɪŋ]

美 [ɪkˈstræpəleɪtɪŋ]

v.  推断; 推知; 外推
extrapolate的现在分词

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。

双语例句

• Like many forecasts, though, it makes the mistake of extrapolating recent trends too freely.
  不过，与许多预测一样，它也犯下了过于随意地根据近期趋势做出推断的毛病。
• We think that the only way we can learn about causation is from past experience and we want to know what ground we have for extrapolating from past experience to the future.
  我们对因果关系加以学习的唯一途径来自于过去的经验，我们想要知道什么样的范畴，可以从过去的经验中推断出未来。
• Up through the 1960s, meteorologists forecast the weather by measuring the present state of the atmosphere and extrapolating forward.
  20世纪60年代，气象学家通过测量大气层现状，并向前外推的方式预测天气。
• These figures are arrived at by extrapolating from last year's sales.
  这些数字是根据去年的销售量推算出来的。
• Are you extrapolating the rate of the leak to get the escape radius?
  你正在通过漏油的速率来推断出他们逃跑的半径？
• 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。
• Indeed, the whole exercise is a warning of the risks of extrapolating the future from present trends.
  当然这些都只是对未来风险的推断和预警。
• Well, if past experience is to give me a good reason it seems that I have got to have some reason for extrapolating from the past to the future.
  如果以往的经验能为我提供合理的解释，那看起来我似乎已经得到了，过去对与未来推断的某种解释。
• So I am extrapolating from the past experience to my future experience correctly.
  所以我在根据过去经验，正确假设未来经验。
• But it's just an example of, how much trouble you can get into by extrapolating.
  但是这给了我们一个例子，让我们知道对数据的臆断，能给我们带来怎样的麻烦。