Contraception may be feasible — but will only serve to control Numbers in the future and not do much to help ease elephant Numbers in the short term.

避孕的方法虽然比较可行，但这只能在未来对大象的繁殖起到控制作用，而对目前短期内减少大象数量不会有太大帮助。

The southern elephant seal too would be brought low, killed in great Numbers for the oil rendered from its blubber.

南方象海象也数量骤降，它被大量捕杀是因为人们要从它的脂肪中提炼油。