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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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？
• 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 wave field is most important in the whole process.
  在整个计算过程中，波场外推是最为重要的环节。
• 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。
• 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。
• The periodic mean superposition method can predict the result through decomposing the hydrological time series into several periodic waves, extrapolating the periodic waves, and linear superposition.
  周期均值叠加法将随时间变化的水文要素序列分离成若干个周期波，然后将周期波进行外延，再进行线性叠加，从而获得预报结果。
• 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。