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.正确答案D...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.