Ìwà adìẹ ní ńwí pé ká tu ìyẹ́ ẹ̀.
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Original
Ìwà adìẹ ní ńwí pé ká tu ìyẹ́ ẹ̀.
Glose littérale
- Ìwà adìẹ the-chicken's behaviour ní ńwí pé is-what says that ká tu ìyẹ́ ẹ̀ we-should pluck its feathers.
Anglais idiomatique
"It is the chicken's behavior that caused its wing feathers to be plucked."
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Ce que cela signifie
Conduct brings its own punishment.
Employé quand
Said of someone whose trouble is traceable to their own behaviour rather than to malice from others. Owomoyela's note, truncated in the source used here, begins "People by their..."
Notes sur la traduction
Wing feathers are clipped to stop a chicken flying out of the compound, so the punishment is precisely a loss of the freedom the bird abused. That fit between offence and penalty is the point and the translation does not carry it.