And there are some lesser-known pollinator pals, too — even gerbils.

还有一些不太为人所知的传粉者——甚至有沙鼠。

Well, right around age 10, the boy got a pet gerbil which he kept in his bedroom.

原来，这个男孩在十岁左右的时候在卧室里面养了一只沙鼠。

Well, I think she looks kind of like a gerbil.

我觉得她长的优点象沙鼠。

Need to track down a lost gerbil?

需要寻找丢失的沙鼠吗？

Scientists now think that it was most likely not rats, but another rodent, the gerbil, that caused the Bubonic plague.

科学家们现在认为黑死病很大可能不是老鼠引起的，而是另一种啮齿动物——沙鼠。

Now you owe me a pet gerbil Twenty red ferns and and an old megaphone!

现在你欠我一只宠物沙鼠 二十株红蕨和一个旧扩音器！

Today, however, gerbils are pets in many American homes.

然而，今天，沙鼠已成为许多美国家庭的宠物。

So, gerbils were left at airport counters.

因此， 沙鼠被留在了机场柜台。

For example, if I said, " I prefer hamsters to gerbils, " you might respond, " Oh, so you want to drown all gerbils? "

例如，如果我说：“比起沙鼠，我更喜欢仓鼠”，你可能会回答：“哦，所以你想淹死所有的沙鼠？”

MI5 didn’t need exceptionally expensive cats, what they used were the entirely expendable rodents called gerbils.

军情五处不需要特别昂贵的猫， 他们使用的是完全可以消耗的啮齿动物，称为沙鼠。