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

• 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。
• 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。
• As a result, some analysts are now using another technique to work out their mortgage-linked losses, namely, extrapolating from prices based on derivatives indices such as the so-called ABX.
  因此，一些分析师现在正在使用另一种技术来计算抵押贷款相关损失，即根据基于衍生品指数（例如所谓的abx）的价格进行推断。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Attempt was made to determine sorption solely on the external surface by extrapolating the sorption isotherms to zero time.
  有人设法使吸收只限于表面积上，即按吸收等温线在时间接近零时所测定的数值。
• 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。
• 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。