I didn't have the heart to tell her that she was not chosen.
我没有勇气告诉她说她没有入选。
We are in the same boat, we both failed the exam.
我们都一样,考试都没及格。
As a shipbuilder, Cockerell was trying to find a solution to the problem of the wave resistance which wastes a good deal of a surface ship's power and limits its speed.