Before I left, I made sure I had a word in private with my old schoolfriend.

在告辞之前，我下决心要跟老同学单独说几句。

While walking round London one day, hoping to meet Dora out shopping, I met my old schoolfriend Tommy Traddles.

一天，我在伦敦街头溜达，指望能看见朵拉从哪家商场出来。这时，我遇见了老同学汤米·特拉德尔。

She usually goes with some other schoolfriends, and they all sit together and eat nuts and ice cream and laugh when something funny happens.

她通常和同学们一起去，他们坐在一起，吃果仁，吃冰激凌，看到有趣的地方，大家哄堂大笑。

The tradition was started in 1829 by Charles Merivale, a student at St John's College, Cambridge, and his schoolfriend Charles Wordsworth who was at Oxford.

这个传统始于1829年，由分别在牛津和剑桥大学念书的两个好朋友--剑桥大学的查尔斯梅里韦尔和牛津大学的查尔斯一起。