Have you tried counting sheep?

你试过数羊的方法吗？

I was counting sheep all night.

我一整晚都在数羊。

Counting sheep had become quite the thing.

数羊已经成大事件了。

Mom: Did you try counting sheep like I told you?

妈妈：你有没有试试我跟你提过的数绵羊？

Dad teaches you a good way to fall sleep: Counting Sheep.

爸爸教你一个好办法入睡：数羊。

"Well, " suggests his doctor, "Have you tried counting sheep?

“哦，有没有试过数羊”医生建议到。

I spent the whole night counting sheep but I was still too worried to sleep.

我整夜都在数数，但仍然心烦得不能入睡。

Watching oil prices fall from $147 a barrel to $57 is not like counting sheep.

看到石油的价格从每桶147美元跌倒57美元，数绵羊也睡不着啊。

The famous old plan of counting sheep jumping over a stile has never served my turn.

那个有名的数跳过篱笆墙台阶的山羊的老办法对我从来都不起作用。

In India and Pakistan, the phrase synonymous to counting sheep is counting the stars.

在印度和巴基斯坦，数绵羊和数星星是同样的概念。

The term "counting sheep" has entered the English language as an idiomatic term for insomnia.

英文中“数绵羊”这个词已经和“失眠”代表了一个意思。

Forget counting sheep, next time you are having trouble dropping off to sleep try putting on a jazz CD.

把数羊入睡的办法忘了吧，下次如果你再睡不着的话，试着放一张爵士乐的CD听听。

Think about what you are good at. Are you good at mathematics? English? Baseball? Playing with little kids? Counting sheep?

想一想自己擅长什么。你擅长数学吗，英语，垒球，和小孩子玩耍，数羊？

The rest of us lie in bed staring at the ceiling, tossing and turning, counting sheep or minutes, or snore, waiting for themercy of blessed sleep to come.

而剩下的我们则是躺在床上，盯着天花板，要么辗转反侧，要么数绵羊，又或者是打鼾，等待着周公的眷顾。

In most depictions of the activity, the practitioner envisions an endless series of identical white sheep jumping over a fence, while counting them as they do so.

大多数人在数绵羊的时候都想一个相同的景象：连续不断的羊群跳过一段白色的围墙，他们自己就一个一个地数。

Through it all, the counting of sheep continued.

在这些喧嚣中，数羊工程依旧继续。

One of them wrote a book asserting that it was because we were using tax dollars to support the counting of sheep that our whole culture had fallen asleep.

有人写了本书，声称国家文化沉睡的原因就是税收被用来支持数羊。

But it made sheep counting fun for almost anybody.

它使数羊成为每个人的乐趣。

The farmers used a special system of counting to tell off their sheep.

农民们使用一种特殊的计数方法清点羊的头数。

In the counting of sheep, it was not necessary to run hither and thither and all a-dither all over the world, worrying about whether some sheep were missing or not.

数羊，并不需要满世界的乱跑，也不需要总是担心是不是有些羊忘记数了。呜呼！