After dinner tonight, I saw Rowley and Collin walking up the hill together, chumming it up.

今天晚饭过后，我看见罗利和柯林一起走上小山坡，一副哥俩好的样子。

" The wisest thing I ever did. To have chummed up with him would have been fatal—the common dodge" .

“这是我做过的最明智的事情。和他搞好会是致命的——常见的闪避” 。

Now governments and institutions are falling over themselves to chum up to workers.

现在，政府和机构正在倒闭以招募工人。