This gets around.

这话就这么流传开来了
One of the reasons that relations weren't very good in this particular town

在小镇里军民关系紧张的另一个原因
was because there was a German officer

是一位德国军官
who had the bad idea of sleeping with a fourteen-year-old girl.

意图染指一个十四岁的姑娘
Some of the local guys go get this guy in this room

一些当地人在现场逮到了他
and just pound him into a well-deserved pulp.

然后把他打了个半死
So, it spins out of control.

因此局势彻底失控了
What happens is on both sides in Berlin and Paris,

在柏林和巴黎两方
this becomes a huge incident,

这都成了一件轰动的大事
confirming the stereotype of the Other.

更加使得双方互看不爽
There's nasty language.

就是说了一句脏话
Bethmann-Hollweg, who was the chancellor then,

当时的德意志帝国首相贝特曼·霍尔维格