By inventing an incurable disease, he can meditate on its impact-on a marriage, on a career, on a character's self-esteem-without dragging in the baggage of a familiar illness.

他能够通过创造一种难以治愈的疾病来思考它对于婚姻，事业或者主人公自尊心的影响——而不是通过某种司空见惯的疾病。

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Tanned, 64 years old and gregarious, the self-taught engineer has made a fortune in four decades of inventing electronic gadgets outside the corporate tent.

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