Mr. Carter dictated letters to him, and he had to make fair copies of statements of accounts.
卡特先生向他口授信件, 他必须公平地复印账目报表。
无名的裘德(中)
These publishing people-they want the copyright of an obscure composer's work, such as mine is, for almost less than I should have to pay a person for making a fair manuscript copy of the score.
Foul papers are an author's working drafts. The term is most often used in the study of the plays of Shakespeare and other dramatists of English Renaissance drama. Once the composition of a play was finished, a transcript or "fair copy" of the foul papers was prepared, by the author or by a scribe.