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

• 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。
• 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。
• The usual caveat about extrapolating from one month of data obviously applies when dealing with erratic Chinese statistics.
  对于难以预料的中国统计数据，根据某个月的数据进行推断的缺点明显可见。
• 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。
• 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。
• Extrapolating from this small area, at least two million active black holes dot the sky, confirming that these extreme astrophysical objects are common indeed.
  根据这块小区域可以推断，天空中至少散步着200万个活跃的黑洞，这也证实了这些极端天体的存在确实很普遍。
• 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。
• Extrapolating from current trends, he describes an archipelago of vibrant suburban town centers, villages and urban cores.
  从目前的趋势推断，他描述了一个充满活力的城市中心的郊区，乡村和城市核心群岛。
• The motion extrapolation hypothesis asserts that the visual system will take care of such delays by extrapolating the position of moving objects forward in time.
  运动外推假说声称视觉系统会及时将运动物体的位置向前外推以解决延迟的问题。