rate of depletion

基本解释

How could the rate of depletion be increasing over the first 5 hours while the rate of current draw is relatively steady?
手機的耗電率怎麽可能在頭5個小時不斷增加，同時電流卻相對穩定？
However, even slight changes in the meteorology of the region this month could affect the rate of depletion of ozone and how large an area the ozone hole might span.
即使這一地區在本月之內出現任何的天氣變化都有可能影響臭氧含量的變動，竝決定臭氧空洞將擴大多少。
Clearly, such a rapid rate of reserve depletion would, if continued, administer a large global shock to asset markets as China's holdings of foreign bonds are reduced.
顯而易見的是，如果這樣的消耗速度繼續下去，隨著中國所持外國債券減少，將對全球資産市場造成重大沖擊。

Similarly, the rate of depletion in key sources of current oil supply is accelerating more rapidly than anticipated.
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