As it was, they were forced to pare a second big stimulus package proposed earlier this year down to the much more modest extension of unemployment benefits that Mr Perriello likes to brag about.

正是如此，他们被迫将今年早期提出的第二个庞大的经济刺激计划削减至更加适中的增加失业津贴，这正是佩列罗喜欢吹嘘得。

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Nietzsche referred to this as the "rejecting process, " noting that while creators like to brag about their big epiphanies, their everyday reality was much less romantic.

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