Our society loves to romanticize the idea of the single, solo inventor who, working late in the lab one night, makes an earthshaking discovery, and voila, overnight everything's changed.
我们的社会热衷于 把单枪匹马的发明者浪漫化： 想象他某一天在实验室工作到深夜， 有了惊天动地的发现， 于是， 一夜之间一切都改变了。