Choose the closest paraphrased version after the following sentence or the italicized part.
In my youth the lonely inventor who could not obtain a hearing was still the stock figure of the imagination. ( )
A、
...inventors were still commonly considered as people who would always isolate themselves.
B、
...inventors were still accepted as imaginary people who would have nothing else in their minds.
C、
...inventors were still imagined as stubborn people who would turn a deaf ear to other people's ideas.
D、
...inventors were still typically supposed as people who had no friends to understand or listen to them.
【正确答案】：D
【题目解析】：
句子释义：我年轻时，人们对发明家的印象仍然是不为人理睬、孤立无援这种固定模式的人物。
D选项“发明家通常被认为是没有朋友来理解或倾听他们的人”符合题意。