国家损失 meaning in Chinese

national loss

In an effort to modernize production , a chinese industrial complex hires a german engineer to supervise the assembly of new machinery from europe . called away by his company , the engineer returns to find that a total incompetent has replaced his first chinese interpreter
由一枚象棋子引起的所谓黑炮事件，使矿山工程师赵书信被卷进一股漩涡之中… …令人痛心的黑炮事件使国家损失了上百万元，可是黑炮最后还是黑炮。