extrapolated

英 [ɪkˈstræpəleɪtɪd]

美 [ɪkˈstræpəleɪtɪd]

v.  推断; 推知; 外推
extrapolate的过去分词和过去式

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

• Most previous calculations of the health cost of Chinese pollution are extrapolated from research conducted in the US, where overall pollution levels are much lower.
  此前，有关中国污染造成的健康代价的多数估算，都是根据美国进行的研究推算出来的，但美国的总体污染水平低得多。
• They often extrapolated from doses recommended for older children, said Sarah G. Lazarus, a pediatrician at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta who was the lead author.
  研究论文的第一作者、亚特兰大儿童医院（Children'sHealthcareofAtlanta）的儿科医生拉扎勒斯（SarahG.Lazarus）称，家长通常会根据针对年长一些的儿童的推荐剂量来进行推断。
• The trend, extrapolated from three years of oil-fuelled growth during the 1970s, seemed inexorable.
  根据上世纪70年代3年间石油驱动的增长来推断，在当时看起来这种趋势是不可动摇的。
• I extrapolated youwere a person for whom detail was not a major concern.
  我推断你是一个不关心细节的人。
• If the result is extrapolated to take in the US population as a whole, such findings could mean that millions of Americans have found a "new drug".
  如果结果被外推法整体上而言接受美国籍的人口，如此的调查结果可以意谓数以百万计美国人已经发现一种“新的药”。
• But that lesson should not be falsely extrapolated as a warning against all market-friendly reforms.
  但不应该错误地推广这一教训，使之成为针对所有市场化改革的警告。
• Since factors influencing demand vary greatly by region and context, findings from one population cannot always be extrapolated to another.
  由于影响需求的因素在不同的地区和环境存有很大差异，针对一种人群的研究成果通常不能借此推断另外一个人群。
• The financial losses are extrapolated from a relatively small sample of respondents.
  经济损失是从少量调查样本中推算出的。
• We've extrapolated the point of origin there.
  我们推断病源就在那里。
• Since individual store managers made most promotion and pay decisions at Wal-Mart, one obvious question was whether the alleged abuse of discretion by certain store managers at a small percentage of stores could be extrapolated to establish abuse of discretion at all Wal-Mart stores.
  因为沃尔玛的工资和晋升决定都是由各自门店经理一人做出，那么一个很明显的问题就是，从小部分门店经理滥用权利的行为是否能够推断出所有沃尔玛门店都存在类似行为。