Mantis came form South America, she was born and rised in a country wracked by never-ending civil wars.
螳螂来自南美，在一个被永不停止的内战所破坏的国家里出生和成长。
Her village was attacked by enemy forces and burned to the ground.
她的村庄被敌人的部队攻击，并且烧成了白地。
This was when she was still a little girl.
这都发生在她还只是个小姑娘的时候。
Hunted by enemy death squads, she was separated from her family.
被敌人的行刑队所追捕，她与她的家人失散了。
(death squad：行刑队，拉丁美洲国家内右派组织,专事谋杀左派分子或是自由派分子)
She barely managed to escape with her life...Ended up in the basement of this one building.
她几乎成功的逃脱了性命……却在这座建筑物的地下室里停住了。
It was full of corpses that had been dumped there.
这里充斥着被抛弃于此的尸体。
Almost all of them had been tortured to death.
几乎全部都是被拷打致死的。
She was petrified with fear.
她被吓得几乎僵化了。
And then she heard the sound of heavy boots on the floor above her, followed by shrieking screams, the kind that would make every hair on your body stand straight up.
然后她听到了厚重的靴子声从楼上的房间传来，接踵而至的是尖叫声，那种能让你毛骨悚然的尖叫声。
She had stumbled across a makeshift torture chamber.
她偶然发现了一个临时代用的拷问室。
Somebody had locked the door, and she was trapped.
有人把门锁住了，而她则被困在了里面。
It was dark, it was dank. And it was full of a wretched stench.
黑暗，潮湿，又充满了恶臭。
She couldn't sleep with the scream of torture victims all around her.
在被拷打的受害者的尖叫中，她无法入睡。
All she could do was sit curled up in one corner of the room, trembling.
而她能做的，就只是蜷缩在房间角落里，颤抖着。
A week passed, then ten days.
一个星期过去了，之后是十天。
She managed to keep hydrated by drinking filthy water pooled upon the floor, but there was no food.
她通过喝房间地板上淤积的臭水来保持身体水分，但是却没有食物。
Being trapped in that kind of place, half-crazy from hunger, did a serious number on her mind.
被困在那样的地方，被饥饿折磨至半疯，给她的精神带来了严重的打击。
Did you know female mantis eat their mates?
你是否知道雌螳螂会吃掉她们的伴侣？
The screams went on day and night, she covered her ears but it didn't help.
尖叫声日夜不停，她尝试捂住耳朵却无济于事。
And then, she was saved...
之后，她得救了……
By a little black mantis, that thaught her how to block out the screams, how to plug up her inner ears.
被一只小的黑螳螂，它教会了她如何阻挡尖叫声，如何塞住她的内耳。
(What the hell are you talking about?)
(你究竟在说些什么？)
I'm saying, Snake, that when she couldn't stand the hunger any longer, she started feeding on the corpses...
我是在说，Snake，当她无法在忍受饥饿的时候，她开始以尸体为食。
But only the male ones.
但是只吃男性的。
She didn't realize who was doing it.
她并没有意识到是谁在这么做。
In her mind, it was a female mantis, devouring her mates.
在她的意识中，是一只雌螳螂，正在吞咽她的配偶。
It was like one big, twisted walking dream.
就像一个巨大的，被扭曲了的白日梦。
There was no mantis, of course.
当然，其实是没有螳螂的。
It was all a hallucination.
那都是一种幻觉。
Nothing more than some story spun by another person she'd created inside.
仅仅是她自己在脑海里虚构的另外一个人而已。
Her unstable mind was what made her so vulnerable.
她不稳定的意识致使她是如此的脆弱。
Later they ripped out what was left of her psyche with drugs and hypnosis, and implanted the persona of Psycho Mantis.
不久后他们用药物和催眠抹去了她剩余的精神，并且植入了精神螳螂的人格。
It wasn't her will that controlled the BBs, it was Psycho Mantis, half-assimilated into her soul, pulling the strings.
并不是她的意愿在控制着Beauty and the Beast，而是精神螳螂的，半同化进了她的灵魂，操纵着木偶线。
Screaming Mantis was just another puppet.
尖叫螳螂只不过是另外一个傀儡。
Anyway, she survied several weeks down in that hellhole and finally got back to the surface.
总之，她在那地狱里存活了数周，最终回到了地面上。
But the screams in her head didn't subside.
但那些在她脑海里的尖叫却没有平息下来。
They would always be with her...Only this time, they weren't real.
它们将会永远伴随着她……只是这一次，它们不是真的了。
The inner earplugs didn't work anymore. The black mantis had disappeared.
内耳塞不再管用了。黑螳螂消失了。
There was no place left to escape.
无处可逃。
Which is why she was always screaming---to drown out the ones in her own head.
