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 like blazes
 拼命地,猛烈地,發瘋似地

 Blaze n.
 1. A stream of gas or vapor emitting light and heat in the process of combustion; a bright flame. “To heaven the blaze uprolled.”
 2. Intense, direct light accompanied with heat; as, to seek shelter from the blaze of the sun.
    O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon!   --Milton.
 3. A bursting out, or active display of any quality; an outburst; a brilliant display.  “Fierce blaze of riot.”  “His blaze of wrath.”
    For what is glory but the blaze of fame?   --Milton.
 4.  A white spot on the forehead of a horse.
 5. A spot made on trees by chipping off a piece of the bark, usually as a surveyor's mark.
    Three blazes in a perpendicular line on the same tree indicating a legislative road, the single blaze a settlement or neighborhood road.   --Carlton.
 In a blaze, on fire; burning with a flame; filled with, giving, or reflecting light; excited or exasperated.
 Like blazes, furiously; rapidly. [Low] “The horses did along like blazes tear.”
 Note: ☞ In low language in the U. S., blazes is frequently used of something extreme or excessive, especially of something very bad; as, blue as blazes.
 Syn: -- Blaze, Flame.
 Usage: A blaze and a flame are both produced by burning gas. In blaze the idea of light rapidly evolved is prominent, with or without heat; as, the blaze of the sun or of a meteor. Flame includes a stronger notion of heat; as, he perished in the flames.