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It induces euphoria, and excites the sexual regions of the brain.
它能引起快感，刺激大腦的性區域，
It is quite possibly hallucinogenic.
引起幻覺。
It leads to strange, unpredictable, and unproductive behavior in those who use it.
使用它的人可能產生奇怪，出乎意料的，不明智的舉動。
What's more, it growswild, much as a weed.
更重要的是它和雜草一樣是野生的。
Is this the latest menace to society? No, it's catnip.
這是對社會的最新威脅嗎？不，它是貓薄荷。
The catnip plant is actually an herb, and a relatively common member of the mint family.
貓薄荷實際上是一種藥草，是薄荷家族中常見的一員。
If kitties ever decided to have a war on drugs, catnip would be outlawed because of a chemical called“nepetalactone.”
如果貓咪們決定來一次反毒品大戰，那么貓薄荷將會被認定為非法藥物，因為它含有一種叫做荊芥內酯的化學物質。
Lactones carry chemical messages inside a body, and nepetalactone carries it's message straightto the pleasure center of a cat's brain, where it can randomly excite the cat's neural circuits associatedwith sex, playing, hunting, and feeding.
內酯在身體內傳送化學信息，荊芥內酯則直接將信息傳入貓腦的“快樂中樞”，在那里可以隨意刺激貓與性欲，玩耍，捕獵以及喂養有關的神經環路。
Although a cat may try to eat catnip or a catnip toy, it is only the smell of catnip that transfers the drug toa cat's brain, not the actual ingestion.
盡管貓會嘗試吃掉貓薄荷或者貓薄荷玩具，但這僅僅是貓薄荷的氣味將藥物傳輸至貓的大腦中，并不是實際的攝取。
This is why a small amount of catnip inside a toy can make a cathappy again and again.
這就是為什么玩具里的一小點貓薄荷就能讓貓不停地興奮。
It's also why a cat will sometimes be more interested in the cardboard box that acatnip toy came in than the actual toy-the cardboard might carry more of the smell.
這也是為什么貓有時會對裝貓薄荷玩具的箱子而不是貓薄荷玩具更感興趣，因為箱子可能有更多的氣味。
If your cat seems unaffected by catnip, don't worry.
如果你的貓不受貓薄荷的影響，不用擔心。
A cat's sensitivity to catnip is genetically determined,and some don't respond at all.
貓對貓薄荷的敏感度是由其基因決定的，有些根本毫無反應。
