meeting in a Frankfurt church

他们曾聚集在法兰克福的一个教堂里
with what would become eventually the German flag,

商讨着最终确定的德国国旗
the colors of it hanging all around the rafters.

椽子上灌满了染有国旗中颜色的布条
It would be unified, as Bismarck accurately put it,

德国一定会统一的就像俾斯麦说的
"By blood and iron,"

"这些问题只有铁和血才能解决"
In the context of the Prussian aristocracy, the nobles, the Junkers,

普鲁士的那些贵族望族容克地主
a term you already know,

这个专有名词你们应该知道
or Prussian nobles,

就是普鲁士贵族
and that basically unified germany would be,

说到德国将会统一
as some wag once put it,

就像有些爱开玩笑的人说的那样
"An army with a state trailing behind it."

"军队背后拖着一个国家"
Germany would not be a republic; it would be an empire.

德国不会成为共和国而会成为帝国