Reading original magazines, I always come across grammar, idioms, background knowledge, and so on. If I deal with them one by one, I cannot afford the time, but if I skip them, I would learn nothing from reading. What should I do?
在阅读原文杂志时，我总会碰到语法、惯用语、背景知识等。如果逐个去解决，我又没有那么多时间，可如果我略过，从阅读中又学不到东西，我该怎么办?
What a dilemma! You can afford the time to read, but you can’t afford the time to make sense of what you’re reading! It’s therefore a waste of time reading. Why don’t you set yourself a very small amount to read and deal with that properly instead of ‘reading［any number of?］original magazines’?
真令人为难!你有时间阅读，却没有时间弄懂你阅读的东西!因此这是浪费时间的阅读。为什么不为自己设定较小的阅读量，认真对待，而不要去“阅读（无数期?）原文杂志”呢?
文：路易亚历山大 新概念英语作者