A countermeasure is a step you take so that someone else's action — or some danger — cannot hurt you, or hurts you much less. The point is not 'doing something nice'. The point is blocking, slowing, or answering a harm.

A countermeasure反制措施 is是 a step you take一個你採取的作法 so that someone else's action — or some danger — cannot hurt you, or hurts you much less好讓別人的行動——或某種危險——沒辦法傷害你，或傷害小很多 The point重點 is not 'doing something nice'不是「做件好事」 The point重點 is blocking, slowing, or answering a harm是阻擋、拖慢，或回應某種傷害

Governments talk about countermeasures against attacks, spies, or disease. Factories talk about countermeasures against accidents. News English likes the word; kitchen English almost never uses it.

Governments政府 talk about countermeasures against attacks, spies, or disease會談到針對攻擊、間諜，或疾病的反制措施 Factories工廠 talk about countermeasures against accidents會談到針對意外事故的反制措施 News English新聞英文 likes the word喜歡用這個詞 kitchen English日常口語 almost never uses it幾乎不會用

You would not call putting on a coat a countermeasure, though actually it is the same kind of idea in easy clothes: a step against a problem.

You你 would not call putting on a coat a countermeasure不會把穿上外套叫做countermeasure though actually不過事實上 it它 is the same kind of idea in easy clothes只是用很簡單的方式表達同一種概念 a step against a problem也就是針對一個問題採取的作法

'Measure' here does not mean size. It means a move, a plan, a thing you do. People sometimes stretch it to any 'thing we did about that', even when nothing was really being stopped.

'Measure'「measure」 here在這裡 does not mean size不是指尺寸大小 It它 means a move, a plan, a thing you do意思是一個行動、一個計畫、一件你做的事 People人們 sometimes stretch it to any 'thing we did about that'有時候會把這個詞拉大，用來指任何「我們對那件事做的事」 even when nothing was really being stopped就算其實沒有真的阻止什麼