新东方-柯林斯雅思备考词典

extrapolate

英  [ɪkˈstræpəleɪt]
    

[VERB]

    VERB. 动词
  • extrapolates , extrapolating , extrapolated

    1[I 不及物动词] 推断

    If you extrapolate from known facts, you use them as a basis for general statements about a situation or about what is likely to happen in the future.

    双语例句

    例:

    Extrapolating from his latest findings, he reckons about 80 of these deaths might be attributed to smoking.

    他根据他最近的发现推断,这类死亡人数中大约80可能归因于吸烟。

    例:

    It is unhelpful to extrapolate general trends from one case.

    从个案推断总趋势毫无益处。

    例:

    She concedes it will be difficult to extrapolate the data from studies of mice to humans.

    她承认很难把研究老鼠所得的数据推断到人类身上。

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