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.
实用例句
1. His dogs were inoculated against rabies.
他的狗注射过狂犬疫苗。来自柯林斯例句
2. The identification of rabies virus has saved many lives.
狂犬病病毒的确认挽救了许多人的性命.来自《简明英汉词典》
3. Dogs, cats and bats can all carry rabies.
狗 、 猫和蝙蝠都可能携带狂犬病病毒.来自《简明英汉词典》
4. Rabies has been described as one of the most terrifying diseases known to man.
狂犬病被称为人类已知的最可怕的疾病之一。来自柯林斯例句
5. Listen to this: a boy in London has died of rabies.
