Like rappers, slammers do battle, but they are judged by the audience.

就像说唱歌手之间会进行较量一样，诗喃者也会斗诗，但他们的输赢是由观众来评判的。

" There was a lot of appetite for slam here, " says Ben Kamuntu, one of Goma's early slammers.

戈马的诗喃者元老本·卡蒙图说，“这里有很多人对诗喃有浓厚的兴趣。”

He spent time in the Russian slammer.

后来在监狱里呆了一段时间。

You say his owner's in the slammer?

你说他的主人进监狱了，是吗？

Ms Zaburi and four other female slammers help women who have been raped or beaten in weekly " slam-o-therapy" workshops.

扎布里女士和其他四名女性诗喃者会在每周的“诗喃疗愈”研讨会上帮助遭遇强奸或殴打的女性。

I can handle the slammer, but Caroline doesn't stand a chance.

我不怕坐牢 但是Caroline完全接受不了。

I am not cut out for the slammer.

我还没做好蹲监狱的准备。

We all know she was in the slammer.

我们都知道她进监狱了。

You say his owner's in the slammer? - Yeah.

你说他的主人进监狱了是吗 -对。

" And have me thrown in the slammer." Slammer is a slang term for jail.

“然后把我扔进砰砰声中。” Slammer 是监狱的俚语。

Unless you want to spend the night in the slammer, you apologize to the tree.

不想在笼子里过夜 就跟那颗树道歉。

In a small, dimly lit room one recent Saturday morning, a group of Congolese slammers are chanting about politics and art, poverty and sex.

最近一个星期六的早晨，一群刚果诗喃者在一间昏暗狭小的房间里吟诵着政治与艺术、贫穷与性活动。

We say slammer because when the jail door closes, it's slams it, boom, it makes a big noise, so slammer.

我们说 slammer 是因为当监狱门关闭时，它砰的一声关上了， 它发出很大的声音，所以 slammer。

Slam reached Goma, a city of some 1m people in embattled eastern Congo, five years ago when a handful of young men began watching YouTube videos of slammers across the world.

诗喃在五年前到达了戈马——一座有大约100万人口、位于刚果东部的危机四伏的城市——当时有一些年轻人开始在YouTube上观看世界各地的诗喃者的视频。

When one slammer, a slight 22-year-old called Rita Zaburi, was asked by a friend why she spent so much time alone in her room, she decided to respond in verse.

当一个名叫丽塔·扎布里的22岁的诗喃者被一个朋友问及她独自在房间里呆很长时间的原因时，她决定用诗喃来回答。

I don't have a job to pay for christmas decorations, but I thought that we should celebrate you being done with exams and me not going to the slammer and finally open this.

我没有工作，没钱买圣诞装饰，但我觉得我们应该庆祝一下，你考完了试，我也没进监狱，可以把这瓶酒喝了。