extrapolate

英 [ɪk'stræpəleɪt; ek-]美 [ɪk'stræpə'let]
  • vt. 外推；推断
  • vi. 外推；进行推断
TEM8 GRE 扩展词汇

助记提示

1. polish => interpolate.
2. polish => polite.
3. => "to alter (a writing) by inserting new material".
4. from extra- + ending from interpolate.

中文词源

extrapolate 推断

extra-, 外面的，超过的。-pol, 推，驱动，词源同polish, interpolate,expel.

英文词源

extrapolate (v.)
1862 (in a Harvard observatory account of the comet of 1858), from extra- + ending from interpolate. Said in early references to be a characteristic word of Sir George Airy (1801-1892), English mathematician and astronomer. Related: Extrapolated; extrapolating.

双语例句

1. 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。
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2. Sea - bottom reverberations would extrapolate back - wards in time to a zero member.
海底交混响就是按时间外推到一种时间零值的.
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3. To determine the human dose - response curve, one must extrapolate down from the high - dose laboratory data.
要确定人类的剂量反应曲线, 就必须从高剂量的实验室数据进行外推.
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4. Forecasters can extrapolate the graph's future and then bet on the prediction.
这些预测者可以推测出图形的未来走向,然后在他们的预测上押注.
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5. There's more work to do and much to extrapolate.
有更多外推的工作要做的和.
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