Why do you always tell me at the last minute? Think of my position too.
为什么你总是到最后关头才告诉我?你也替我想想啊!
If he does, and later you are not hired.
如果他问了这个问题,后来你又没有被雇用。
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.