Original text
Reading is only about memorizing it, then ① it will get better day by day and ②. Chen Jin only read one hundred and twenty words a day, so he had no books to read. The so-called daily calculation is insufficient, but the annual calculation is more than enough. Nowadays, whoever does not read will recite thousands of words a day⑤. It is pleasant at the beginning, but then he or she forgets about it. Even if he does not get a hundred and twenty words at the age of one, how about one day? When I was young, I had the habit of greed for too much. Even now, every time I think about it, I feel empty in my stomach, only then do I know that Chen Jin has obtained the Dharma cloud.
①Then: Then. ②Jinyi: Make progress. ③Sui: Conjunction, so, then. ④Sui: year. ⑤Word: word. ⑥Ran: But ⑦Xuan: Adverb, immediately. ⑧Although: Tong "wei", only, only. 9. Addiction: Trouble. ⑩For obtaining the Fa: It is the one who obtains the Fa. Yun, the modal particle at the end of the sentence.
Translation
The most important thing in reading is to remember it and you can make progress. Chen Jinzhi only read 120 words a day, and then there was no book he did not read. No matter how little you read, you will accumulate a lot in one year. Who among today’s people doesn’t read? I recite more than 1,000 words every day. I am very happy at first, but I finish reading it quickly and forget it quickly. You can’t even remember 120 words in one year, let alone one day? When I was young, I also had the problem of being greedy for too much. Now that I see that I have no money, I realize that Chen Jinzhi's method is right.