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.
例句
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。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。
英汉词典释义
vt.
(由已知资料对未知事实或价值)推算,推断
the process of extrapolating推断的过程
英英词典释义
Verb
1. draw from specific cases for more general cases
2. estimate the value of
3. gain knowledge of (an area not known or experienced) by extrapolating