Absinthe is made from wormwood.

苦艾酒是用苦艾酿造
It used--it was made illegal.

在过去那是非法的
It's physiologically addictive, it is addictive

苦艾酒会造成人生理上的依赖容易成瘾
--well, drinking's addictive, too;

当然酗酒也容易上瘾
but, this is physiologically addictive, it's bad stuff,

但是这种生理依赖却是很严重的情况
and they banned it in 1915 because of the war.

1915年因为战争政府禁止了艾苦酒
And I had some absinthe--

我有一点苦艾酒
we have friends in Besan?on

我们的朋友在贝桑松市
who don't drink very much,

他们喝的不多
but they had some absinthe

但手头上有点苦艾酒
and of course I was willing to take a shot at that and drink that.

我当然很愿意去和他们小酌一番
And then it became legal again,

逐渐地它又变得合法了