No one in Washington today recalls what happened during the years aalcohol was forbidden to the people by a Congress that thought it had a divine mission to stamp out Demon Rum --launching, in the process, the greatest crime wave in the country's history,cauusing thousands of deaths from bad alcohol, and creating a general and persisting contempt among the citizenry for laws of the United States.

No one in Washington today recalls what happened during the years alcohol was forbidden to the people by a Congress that thought it had a divine mission to stamp out Demon Rum --launching, in the process, the greatest crime wave in the country's history, causing thousands of deaths from bad alcohol, and creating a general and persisting contempt among the citizenry for laws of the United States.

【句子分析】

主句：No one in Washington today recalls what happened during the years

定語從句：alcohol was forbidden to the people by a Congress that thought it had a divine mission to stamp out Demon Rum --- launching, in the process, the greatest crime wave in the country's history, causing thousands of deaths from bad alcohol, and creating a general and persisting contempt among the citizenry for laws of the United States. （修飾the years，省略關系副詞when）

定語從句：that thought it had a divine mission to stamp out Demon Rum（修飾Congress）

三個現在分詞短語：

launching, in the process, the greatest crime wave in the country's history,

causing thousands of deaths from bad alcohol,

and creating a general and persisting contempt among the citizenry for laws of the United States.

是禁酒的結果，作結果狀語。

Demon Rum：酒的名字

【句子意譯】今天，在華盛頓沒人還記得在那些年月里發生了什么。當時國會（通過法律）禁止人們喝酒，認為禁酒是其神圣使命。禁酒過程中，結果導致了全國歷史上最猛烈的犯罪潮，成千上萬的人因喝劣酒而喪命，公民開始普遍地長期蔑視美國法律。