extrapolate

动词（由已知资料对未知事实或价值）推算，推断

1. 推断：由于 主要是关注学生从已学到的知识推断(extrapolate)新知识的能力或将知识应用于新情境(novel settings)的能力,因此,PISA有三个明显的特征是:一是情景,强调真实的社会生活或生产活动的情景;二是运用,强调运用已学到的知识进行解释或解决问题;

2. 外推：这甚至可以外推(extrapolate)至我们选择的方方面面,我们为什么会喜欢某个笔记本或某种小饰品. 套用一下某姑娘的签名:我们爱上的,其实是我们的欲望. 这位天才感知事物的层......

3. 推断, [数]外推：truck frame 转向架构架, 车架 | extrapolate 推断, [数]外推 | thymic [解]胸腺的 [植]百里香的 麝香草的

4. 外插：expansion joint 伸缩接头 | extrapolate 外插 | fair 光顺

1. 推断;推知
    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.

    e.g. 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。
    e.g. 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。

1. We can extrapolate back to what might have gone on in the past.

2. Some economists from the West try to take a shortcut and extrapolate from the experience of developed countries when making predictions about China's economy.

3. The light from the sun fades just slightly when this happens, and astronomers can extrapolate the size and location of the planet.

4. " Our results may not extrapolate to other populations with different patterns of religious affiliations, " they wrote.

verb