VERB
推斷;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.
例句
Extrapolating from his American findings, he reckons about 80% of these deaths might be attributed to smoking...
根據他在美國的調查結果推斷，他估計這些人中約有80％可能死于吸煙。
It is unhelpful to extrapolate general trends from one case.
根據一個案例來推斷總的趨勢是沒有用的。