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extrapolate
英 [ɪkˈstræpəleɪt]
[VERB]
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。