Read a short news article, and record yourself summarizing it.

阅读一篇短新闻文章，并且记录你的总结。

High-intensity reading: read a short news article on a technical topic.

阅读一篇关于技术主题的简短新闻文章。

The experiment included human-sounding robot voices providing false short news stories meant to be too futuristic to be believed.

实验中，机器人的声音听起来像人类的声音，提供虚假的短新闻故事，这些故事过于未来主义，令人难以置信。

" To be brief" means to be short, so a news brief is a short – very short news article.

“to be brief” 就是简短的意思，所以news brief就是一篇很短——很短的新闻文章。

" So? " said Harry, scanning the short news item to which the picture belonged; it was a rather dull story about inter-school competitions.

“所以？”哈利迅速扫视着照片边上简短的新闻，那是一个非常沉闷的有关校际比赛的故事。

I recommend that you read it two times right away, especially if it's a short news article, and then read it again later in the day or the next day.

我建议你马上读两遍， 特别是如果它是一篇简短的新闻文章，然后在当天晚些时候或第二天再读一遍。