rabies: [17] Latin rabiēs meant ‘fury, madness’ (it is the source of English rage). Hence it came to be used for ‘madness in dogs’, and was subsequently adopted as the name of the disease causing this, when it came to be identified. The word was derived from the verb rabere ‘be mad’, as also was rabidus, source of English rabid [17]. => rabid, rage
rabies (n.)
1590s, from Latin rabies "madness, rage, fury," related to rabere "be mad, rave" (see rage (v.)). Sense of "extremely fatal infectious disease causing madness in dogs" was a secondary meaning in Latin. Known hydrophobia in humans.
雙語例句
1. His dogs were inoculated against rabies.
他的狗注射過狂犬疫苗。
來自柯林斯例句
2. The identification of rabies virus has saved many lives.
狂犬病病毒的確認挽救了許多人的性命.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
3. Dogs, cats and bats can all carry rabies.
狗 、 貓和蝙蝠都可能攜帶狂犬病病毒.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
4. Rabies has been described as one of the most terrifying diseases known to man.
狂犬病被稱為人類已知的最可怕的疾病之一。
來自柯林斯例句
5. Listen to this: a boy in London has died of rabies.