Due to rising costs and delays in the delivery of equipment, losses are already foreseeable on the new tunnel project.由于成本上升、设备运送延误，人们已经预见到新隧道工程必将出现亏损。The tunnel had never been finished. Perhaps the builders lost heart and abandoned it.隧道工程半途而废了，也许是工人们丧失了信心放弃了。