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。
• 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。
• Similarly, watching the total bandwidth used in the past and extrapolating to the future helps you determine when network upgrades are needed.
  同样，查看过去使用的总带宽并推断未来的变化，可以帮助判断什么时候需要进行网络升级。
• 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 directly from age to economic and social burdens is unreliable, however.
  不过，直接从年龄外推经济与社会负担并不可靠。
• 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。
• In most cases, the Journal calculated them by extrapolating from figures that the firms do have to disclose.
  上面的大部分数字都是《华尔街日报》从这些公司公布的数据中推断出来的。
• Extrapolating a global average from such data involves an amount of tinkering& or homogenisation.
  从这些漏洞百出的数据求出来的全球气温平均值是有误差的，或者说是均化的。
• 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？
• 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。