Children immerse themselves in their own artificial worlds of miniatures .

儿童们沉浸在他们自己的微型人造世界里。

Back then we used glass paintings , foreground miniatures and stop-motion animation .

那时候我们用玻璃绘画、前景微型图、单格拍摄绘制。

So does much of the great art in our culture : persian miniatures , painterly landscape realism , japanese tea gardens , and perhaps all novels and theater .

我们文化中很多伟大的艺术作品也是如此：波斯的微型画艺术，现实主义的彩色风景画，日本的茶园，也许还要算上所有的小说和戏剧。

Although diplomatic complications prevented the miniatures from tehran and st petersburg that were shown in switzerland from travelling to america , the met 's version of " wonder of the age " has added works from the aga khan 's collection and the bodleian library in oxford .

瑞士曾展览过来自德黑兰和圣彼得堡的微型画，但由于某些外交原因，美国没能成功引入，尽管如此大都会博物馆的另一个所谓“时代奇迹”却引来了阿迦汗和牛津大学图书馆的不少收藏。

You might pass the time constructing miniatures from the toothpicks .

你或许可以用牙签制作微雕，以熬过这段时间。