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——鼠。

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

她长的优点象鼠。

Gerry the Gerbil and the Bullies on the Bus. Read it. Not helpful.

鼠杰瑞和恶霸在公车上。读过了，没啥用。

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

还有些不太为人所知的传粉者——甚至有鼠。

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

例如，如果说：“比起鼠，更喜欢仓鼠”，你可能会回答：“哦，所以你想淹死所有的鼠？”

I had absolutely no idea what he meant but did not want to let on, and said that we probably shouldn't hold out for a crimson gerbil either.

完全不知道他是什么意思，但又不想表现出来，于是说们可能也不应该拖到最后要了深红色鼠。

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鼠。

Need to track down a lost gerbil?

需要找回失的鼠吗？

Your boss presumably now thinks that a crimson gerbil is another term for the same thing.

你的老板现在大概以为深红色鼠是表示这种人的另个黑话。

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

现在你欠宠物鼠 二十株红蕨和个旧扩音器！

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

然而，今天，鼠已成为许多美国家庭的宠物。

The gerbil filed papers, by the way.

顺便说下，那鼠提交了文件。

Hey, can you tell us some gerbil stories?

嘿，你能给们讲讲关于鼠的故事吗？

A spicy seasoning. ginger. A small, mouselike pet. gerbil.

• 种辛辣的调味品。姜。种老鼠般大小的宠物。鼠。

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

例如，如果说，“比起鼠， 更喜欢仓鼠” ，你可能会回答：“哦， 所以你想淹死所有的鼠？

Despite the fact that this depiction made it look more like a cross between a weasel and a gerbil than a real kangaroo.

尽管这种描绘使它看起来更像是黄鼠狼和鼠的混合体，而不是真正的袋鼠。

“MI5 sleuths planned to use gerbils to trap secret agents, terrorists, and subversives during the cold war, ” writes the Guardian.

“军情五处侦探计划在冷战期间使用鼠来诱捕秘密特工、恐怖分子和颠覆分子，” 《卫报》写道。

And so we started telling them it was like a little pet hamster, a gerbil or a squirrel.

所以们开始告诉他们，那就像小宠物仓鼠、鼠或者松鼠。

I don't know what that was, some kind of sand fly or sand weasel inside of that sand.

- 不知道那是什么，子里有某种蝇或鼠。

Can a gerbil read sixty pages in sixty days? No.

• 鼠能在六十天内读完六十页书吗？不能。