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只沙鼠。

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

我觉得她长的优点象沙鼠。

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

还有不太为人所知的传粉——甚至有沙鼠。

Need to track down a lost gerbil?

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!

现在你欠我只宠物沙鼠 二十株红蕨和个旧扩音器！

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？