Costs and expenses can be paid, and a reasonable fee may go to the adoption agency involved, but nothing more.

领养者可以支付费用及开支，领养中介也可以得到合理的酬金，但仅此而已。

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An agency with a frozen budget regards it as a cutback, because certain expenses rise, such as payroll.

一个机构如果被冻结预算，那就相当于削减，因为特定的开支会增加，比如工资。

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Operating expenses for GDS, excluding agency commissions, decreased by $(3) million, or (2)%, compared to the fourth quarter of 2008.

如果扣除支付给旅行社的佣金，GDS的运营成本下降了300万美元，同比下降了2%。

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This includes a signed affidavit, law enforcement or governmental agency reports, receipts of expenses, and insurance declaration forms.

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They have to control expenses somehow, and marketing through an agency always seems incredibly expensive.

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For now, the SEC is asking for a breakdown of those expenses, said people familiar with the agency's operations, but aren't necessarily telling firms they aren't allowed to charge investors for certain items so long as the firm has made the disclosures.

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