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。
英漢詞典釋義
n.
推斷
He estimate his income tax bill by extrapolation from figures submit in previous year.他從前幾年的報稅數字推算出自己應繳的所得稅數額。
<統>外推(法)
extrapolation to the limit外推極限法
英英詞典釋義
Noun
1. (mathematics) calculation of the value of a function outside the range of known values
2. an inference about the future (or about some hypothetical situation) based on known facts and observations