The only difficult part was threading the cotton through the eye of the needle!

唯一困难的部分是将棉线穿过针眼！

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The needle-eye is too small to hold the thread.

针眼太小线穿不进去。

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It takes him up to three months to create each amazing and unique sculpture, which usually sits within the eye of a needle or on a pin head.

每个让人叹为观止、别具一格的雕像都需要花费他三个月的时间，这种雕像通常放在针孔里或者大头针的针头上。

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From the valley below, each pier and mast merge to look like a single needle with an elongated eye: Foster's drawings, in fact, depict a thread piercing the eye of a needle.

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WSJ's Gautam Naik reports these micro-sculptures are small enough to fit inside the eye of a needle.

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