ほうだい

[砲台] battery

【C】.

放題
as much as you would like to
邦題
Japanese (translation) title given to foreign work

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I

―ほうだい【―放題】

¶ → したい放題で

¶ → したい放題にやる

¶ → 言いたい放題である

II

ほうだい【砲台】

battery

〖C〗.

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I

ほうだい【邦題】

the Japanese title 《of a movie》.

II

ほうだい【砲台】

a (gun) battery; 〔要塞〕 a fort; a fortress; a casemate.

●砲台を築く construct [erect] a battery; build a fort.

隠蔽(_いんぺい)[攻城, 凹座(_おうざ), 交射, 浮]砲台 a masked [siege, sunken, cross, floating] battery.

曲射[露天, 装甲]砲台 an indirect [open, armored] battery.

主[副, 船首]砲台 the main [secondary, foremost] battery.

III

-ほうだい【-放題】

●食い放題に食う eat one's fill [to one's heart's content]; eat as much as one likes

・人の言いなり放題になる act as sb bids; move at sb's beck and call; be led by the nose (by sb)

・彼は妻の言いなり放題になっている. He does whatever his wife tells him to. | He is tied to his wife's apron strings. | He is henpecked [wife-ridden]. | He is a henpecked husband.

・やりたい放題に as one pleases; at will; to one's heart's content

・したい放題にさせておく let sb have everything his own way; let sb do whatever he wants

・庭は荒れ放題になっていた. The garden was allowed to grow wild [left untended to].

●言いたい放題のことを言う speak without reserve; say as [what] one likes [pleases]

・破れ放題の障子 a shoji with holes [tears] left unrepaired.

●わがままのし放題である have everything one's own way; have one's own way in everything. [⇒しほうだい]

・あそこは 4 千円で食べ放題, 飲み放題だ. At that place you can eat and drink as much as you want for 4,000 yen.