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And thus the pattern would continue. Mona Simpson used all of this, plus her imagination,
這種情況還會不斷重演。莫娜·辛普森把所有這些，加上她的想象，
as a springboard for her third novel, A Regular Guy, published in 1996.
作為了她第三部小說《凡人》的藍本。該小說于1996年出版。
The book's title character is based on Jobs, and to some extent it adheres to reality:
這本書的主角是以喬布斯為原型，在一定程度上符合事實：
It depicts Jobs's quiet generosity to, and purchase of a special car for, a brilliant friend who had degenerative bone disease,
它描寫了喬布斯對一位骨病不斷惡化的朋友的低調慷慨，如何為對方購買一輛特制的汽車；
and it accurately describes many unflattering aspects of his relationship with Lisa, including his original denial of paternity.
它準確地描述了他和麗薩之間關系的諸多方面，包括他最初否認他們的血緣關系。
But other parts are purely fiction; Chrisann had taught Lisa at a very early age how to drive, for example,
但其他部分多為虛構：例如，雖然克里斯安在麗薩很小的時候就教她開車，
but the book's scene of "Jane" driving a truck across the mountains alone at age five to find her father of course never happened.
但是書里的“簡”5歲時開著輛卡車翻山越嶺去找她父親的情節當然是從未發生過。
In addition, there are little details in the novel that, in journalist parlance, are too good to check,
另外，小說里還有些小細節，用新聞學術語來說，是過于精致，無據可考，
such as the head-snapping description of the character based on Jobs in the very first sentence: "He was a man too busy to flush toilets."
例如全書第一句就當頭一棒地如此描寫基于喬布斯的這個角色：“他是個忙得連馬桶都不沖的人。”
On the surface, the novel's fictional portrayal of Jobs seems harsh.
表面上，這部小說對喬布斯的虛構描述看起來很苛刻。
Simpson describes her main character as unable "to see any need to pander to the wishes or whims of other people."
辛普森描述她的主角，“不覺得有任何必要遷就其他人的希望或夢想”。
