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发音：[ɪkˈstræpəˌleɪt]
例句：
- “Extrapolate” means to guess or predict something based on the information you already have, especially when you’re trying to figure out what might happen in the future. It’s like using what you know to make an educated guess about what you don’t know.
- For example, if you know how fast a car was going at the start of a race and how long the race is, you can extrapolate to guess where the car will be at the end of the race. It’s like using what you know to figure out what you don’t know. People often use extrapolation in science, math, and everyday life to make predictions or estimate things.
- In recent episodes, the hosts have been extrapolating lessons on how to live a fulfilling life in the modern age from the wisdom of ancient philosophers such as Aristotle, the Buddha, and Confucius.
- By extrapolating data from 66 airlines released last year, the report, sponsored by CarTrawler, a company providing car rental recommendations on many airlines’ websites, estimated the likely additional revenue of 184 carriers worldwide.
- Drawing from observations of sea surface temperatures in a particular North Atlantic region, the method extrapolates the future state of the entire ocean system by applying statistical techniques to these limited data points.
- The research has prompted urgency among some scientists to protect ecosystems, but there are also doubts among others about the extent to which conclusions, largely derived from data related to seas, rivers, or lakes, can be accurately extrapolated to the Amazon.
- The concept of continually refining measurement accuracy, stemming from Tycho Brahe, was applied by Galileo in the realm of physics to enhance the connection between evidence and theory. In doing so, Galileo was extrapolating from the methods employed by astronomers.
解释：
- Extrapolate这个单词做动词使用，其表示“to use specific details to make a general conclusion”这一含义，即“推断/推测/预测/推论”，与infer/deduce/hypothesize/anticipate等单词构成近义词。
- 具体使用场景如下：
- Kim Stanley Robinson’s “New York 2140” skillfully extrapolates the implications of rising sea levels on New York City, offering readers a vivid portrayal of a future shaped by environmental changes.（金·斯坦利·罗宾逊的《纽约2140》巧妙地推断了海平面上升对纽约市的影响，为读者生动地描绘了由环境变化塑造的未来。）
–Literature - Within this group of astronomers, they utilize data from the cosmic microwave background and employ techniques to extrapolate these measurements into the present. This approach relies on our most trusted physical models to generate an estimate for the current expansion rate of the universe.（在这组天文学家中，他们利用来自宇宙微波背景的数据，并采用技术将这些测量值推断到现在。这种方法依赖于我们最信任的物理模型来估计当前的宇宙膨胀率。）
–Science - Crystal analyzes data from publicly available sources, such as social media and private peer reviews on its platform, to categorize professionals into 64 personality types. It then extrapolates their work and communication styles based on these categorizations.（Crystal 分析来自公开来源的数据，例如其平台上的社交媒体和私人同行评审，将专业人士分为 64 种性格类型。然后，它根据这些分类预测他们的工作和沟通风格。）
–Technology - Utilizing data gathered in 2008, researchers extrapolated the information to predict conditions in 2021 by incorporating the most recent demographic data from the government’s National Family Health Survey, which is the most extensive household survey of health and social indicators.（利用 2008 年收集的数据，研究人员通过结合政府全国家庭健康调查的最新人口统计数据来推测信息以预测 2021 年的情况，这是最广泛的健康和社会指标家庭调查。）
–News - Building upon their grasp of anatomy, artists extrapolated ideas from the fragmentary bone remains they had access to, seamlessly weaving elements from both biblical and classical mythological portrayals of monsters.（基于对解剖学的掌握，艺术家们从他们能够接触到的碎片骨头遗骸中推断出想法，无缝地编织了圣经和古典神话中对怪物的描绘的元素。）
–Arts
