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

还有一些不太人所知的传粉者——甚至有鼠。

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

原来，这个男孩在右的时候在卧室里面养了一只鼠。

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

我觉得她长的优点象鼠。

Need to track down a lost gerbil?

需要寻找丢失的鼠吗？

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

科学家们现在认黑死病很大可能不是老鼠引起的，而是另一种啮齿动物——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鼠 二株红蕨和一个旧扩音器！

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

然而，，鼠已成许多美国家庭的宠物。

So, gerbils were left at airport counters.

因此， 鼠被留在了机场柜台。

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。

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