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Definition of lament in English: lamentnoun ləˈmɛntləˈmɛnt 1A passionate expression of grief or sorrow. 悲痛;伤心;悲悼 his mother's night-long laments for his father 他母亲对他父亲的整夜悲悼。 mass noun a song full of lament and sorrow 一首充满哀伤的歌。 Example sentencesExamples - It begins in the middle of an epistolary lament from the father of the bride and ends with a subtle allusion to a ceremony whose express purpose is to make Byzantine imperial presence more real.
- Cleopatra's response, though, suggests that she too intends suicide, and she confirms this in the passionate lament that follows his death.
- Among the musicians in her Boston-based company, Boston Flamenco, is Fernando de Malaga, a flamenco singer who is the real thing - you can hear the lament in his voice.
- And the closing title track, where the Kronos strings weep sad harmonies, is a lament of utter anguish unlike anything else on the disc.
- Paradise Lost is of course in its largest sense a lament for the loss of human innocence.
- The lament of a mother for her child lost to the mighty blow of life brought a lump in the throat and tears to the eyes of the kindred spirits.
- Dusty stood it on its head and made it a passionate lament of loneliness and love.
- In contrast, the only explicit messianic reference to Humbert appeared in a version of a lament in Irish for Father Manus Sweeney, a beloved Mayo priest who participated in the Rebellion and was later hanged.
- Everything moves, everything's clear, the dances dance, the laments grieve.
- As Joy Division, they ripped up rock's rule book by making music that was heavy and subtle, glacial, yet full of lament - Love Will Tear Us Apart has just been chosen as one of The Brits 25 best songs ever written.
- All those living who heard her lament were deeply moved.
- Her lament does not express regret for a breach of fidelity, but rather the deep sadness of the final farewell.
- The narrator seems to thrive on pain and on the lyrical laments of all the voices telling tales of woe in the narrative, and its very form captures the unpredictability and riffs of jazz.
- She could hear every halting breath, every tear drip off his chin, and every soft moan a painful lament.
- Her lush sensuality remains intact, but the unctuous, buttery impasto and singing colour contrast past felicity with present vacancy, and blend lyricism with passionate lament.
- The theme of the passionate love of the Lancasters for England sounds in the lament by Bolingbroke for the country he must leave.
- The Ritsos poem was actually written after demonstrations in Thessaloniki in May 1936, and it's the lament of a mother whose son, taking part in the demonstrations, has been killed by the police.
- An assessment of great music should allow for a wider variety of moods and expressions - lament, meander, laughter, rage, gallows humor, resignation, and much more.
- Everything was on target in this by turns fierce, passionate and stoic gypsy lament.
- ‘Lamentate’ is a lament not for the dead but the living, struggling with the pain and hopelessness of the world.
Synonyms wail, wailing, lamentation, moan, moaning, groan, weeping, crying, sob, sobbing, keening, howl, complaint rare jeremiad, ululation - 1.1 A song, piece of music, or poem expressing grief or sorrow.
挽歌,哀乐,哀诗 the piper played a lament 吹笛者演奏了一曲哀歌。 Example sentencesExamples - The piece is a lament, but he never referred to its connections or dedication, although he goes way back into time in a setting of the bardic song Cathleen ni Hoolihan.
- His music, comprising mostly songs, dance-tunes, laments, and some religious pieces, draws upon native tradition but was also influenced by European composers such as Vivaldi and Corelli.
- The show is packed full of stirring anthems, plaintive laments and unforgettable love songs sung by a first-class cast and backed by the Lyric Opera Orchestra.
- Starting as a melancholic lament, the music slowly intruded into the action and eventually drowned out the longer speeches.
- Music for the coffee concert will include Irish traditional dance music, laments and the music of O'Carolan.
- Next to love songs are laments of exile; ‘Djunda Djunda’ tells of government corruption.
- Not even the peasantry escaped, as was well appreciated by those who sang the popular lament, ‘Song of the Husbandman’, in Edward I's reign.
- During the wreath laying ceremony young pipers from Marlborough College played a lament.
- Pre-Christian epic ballads, agricultural songs, laments, and tales dating back to before the tenth century were recorded for the first time in the seventeenth century.
- Everyone was dressed in deepest black, and sang laments for the King.
- We had been warned that Ann Lamont-Low, whose moving lament concludes the piece, was ill and, indeed, for the first few bars she sounded more like Nico than Marilyn Klinghoffer.
- An Irish lament was then played on the flute by Boyle musician Brendan Gaffney.
- A Scottish piper will play a lament from the control tower at Elvington Airfield during the funeral service in the hangar tomorrow at 12.30 pm.
- The mourning mother recirculates the lament of the earlier lines as Orpheus and Calliope are themselves ‘fall'n on evil days.’
- He played graveside laments for those he liked, mourned and admired.
- The girls are singing a sad lament in Sinhalese: ‘Old sea waves, you have kidnapped us ’.
- I could have sworn I heard a piper playing a lament.
- A lot of the sentiment of the movie is delivered through songs in the cabaret, which are old Taiwanese songs, mainly cheesy laments about past love.
- I loved the mixture in myself; the sad Irish laments and the lilting Scottish songs.
Synonyms dirge, requiem, elegy, funeral song/chant, burial hymn, dead march, keen, plaint, knell Scottish coronach rare threnody, monody, epicedium
2A complaint. there were constant laments about the conditions of employment 经常有人抱怨就业状况。 Example sentencesExamples - A common lament of many Waterloo students is the lack of a local music scene.
- Talk to intranet champions at big enterprises, and you'll soon hear a familiar, poignant lament.
- So it hurts Kapoor to hear the oft-repeated lament that Indian publishers don't pay royalties.
- The familiar lament by mothers everywhere may have a kernel of scientific truth.
- His constant lament was that the Tamil stage had not come of age.
- Until recently, such fantasies were expressed mainly by the far right, or in the laments of despondent Oxbridge dons.
- The constant in recent games has been a lament from opponents about being pushed around.
- The first post-election caucus meeting would appear to provide an ideal opportunity for MPs to voice private laments about an election gone awry and about the first half-year of Paul Martin's leadership.
- And this well-worn lament is never more true than when it applies to country crafts.
- The same lament about constant meddling from politicians could be applied to education where since the eighties there has been reform followed by contradictory reform.
- Despite modern laments about medieval colonialism, the crusade's real purpose was to turn back Muslim conquests and restore formerly Christian lands to Christian control.
- The lament expressed by Lomax is one being made quite frequently by higher education officials around the nation.
- A common lament about American literature is that it lacks the political and social scope of other traditions.
- The remaining inmate of Mr Peggotty's hospitable home is Mrs Gummidge, another dependant and a widow, whose peevish laments for her forlorn condition are patiently borne by Mr Peggotty.
- Old-timers may find support for their constant laments that the game is steadily going downhill by citing the glittering example of 19th Century owner Chris Von der Ahe.
- Dilsey tells her such talk is ridiculous, but Mrs. Compson enjoys complaining, so continues with her laments.
- You could definitely hear their plaintive laments.
- But everywhere I turn, there is a constant keening lament about how bad the site has gotten, as compared to its long-past Glory Days.
- From all sides came laments about wilful absenteeism: as the factory-owners complained, the workers just dropped their tools and disappeared ‘whenever they felt like it’.
verb ləˈmɛntləˈmɛnt 1with object Express passionate grief about. he was lamenting the death of his infant daughter 他在哀悼他幼女的夭折。 no object the women wept and lamented over him 女人们流着泪表达对他的悼念。 Example sentencesExamples - The Minukku Vesham of the Brahmana, who laments the tragic deaths of his children before Arjuna, is one of the masterpiece roles of the sexagenarian actor.
- But our first duty as Christians is to mourn and lament such deaths, not to use violence in response to them.
- The Federation of Chambers of Commerce and Industry of Sri Lanka lamented his death as a ‘great loss to the industrial sector of the country’.
- Talking with his mother, the narrator laments God's apparent detachment and the apparent reasons that he and his family are too inconsequential to receive any special divine attention.
- He continues to sit in the wreckage of the camp, however, lamenting the deaths of his friends and wondering what he can possibly do next.
- We follow haphazardly, as he laments the death of his friend from cancer at 29.
- The odd way both men speak at once, the finality and harshness of their summing up can not but remind one of the choruses of Greek Tragedies, who describe and lament the deaths of heroes.
- All Lebanon lamented his death as one man and honoured him with a hero's funeral.
- Like Mr. Kammer, I lament the many needless deaths caused by self-adoring amateurs playing war from the safety of Washington offices.
- One of MacNeil's most important roles as clan bard is to eulogise and lament the deaths of important clan members.
- Therefore I seek your indulgence to allow me to lament my grief.
- Queen Elizabeth laments the death of Edward and fears for her children's safety.
- Cybele found her son's body and returned with him to Mount Ida, where she lamented his death.
- Egyptian intellectuals and media on Friday morning lamented the death of Sherif at the hands of his kidnappers.
- Yesterday, Cassie's distraught grandmother, Elizabeth Chery, fought to hold back the tears as she lamented his loss.
- In one of Chaucer's earliest poems, The Book of the Duchess, a knight is overheard in the forest lamenting the death of his lady.
- A number of women became famous for their poems inciting warriors to fight fiercely, lamenting death or defeat, or celebrating victory.
- In his weekly column, Kavalek laments the death of George Koltanowski.
- Only the common people, who benefited from his extravagant spending, lamented his death.
- In their voices I could hear the sorrow of a mother, of a village, lamenting their losses and mourning for their children.
Synonyms mourn, grieve (for/over), weep for, shed tears for sorrow, wail, moan, groan, weep, cry, sob, keen, plain, howl, pine for, beat one's breast rare ululate 2reporting verb Express regret or disappointment about something. 遗憾,抱怨 with object she lamented the lack of shops in the town 她哀叹城中缺少商店。 with direct speech ‘We could have won,’ lamented the England captain “我们原本能赢的,"英格兰队队长失望地说。 Example sentencesExamples - Like certain bloggers with a professional interest in the academy, McPhee laments the difficulties involved in obtaining taxpayer dollars for the worthy work she insists is going on beneath the dreaming spires.
- He laments the death of progress in the modern era.
- Some wanted retribution and called for the death penalty for convicted police murderers, while others lamented the decline of their communities.
- I'm sure you've seen at least one article lamenting the death of rock journalism.
- For years, dive operators and visitors to Phuket have lamented that the area lacked a decent sized wreck.
- Auban laments how this heroic battle against authority ended the ‘right to free speech on Trafalgar Square’.
- One critic laments that such music ‘plays a smaller role in middle-class life than at any time since Beethoven's death.’
- ‘This was my seventh Challenge and I've come near each time, but never been a winner,’ a disappointed Smith lamented.
- ‘I'm the old man around here,’ Diamond laments with a laugh.
- In her piece she generally laments culturally perpetuated generalizations.
- Battle laments, ‘I was not very knowledgeable about the stock market,’ when she began investing with her first financial advisor.
- Political historians have lamented the death of political history since the 1960s and 1970s onslaught of social and cultural historians.
- The film is shot in washed out colour and bears grim tidings for all who lament the earlier and earlier death of childhood.
- For years we've lamented the level of deaths on our roads.
- Still, my poor mother laments: ‘You express yourself so beautifully, surely you can find other words.’
- The writer of the 1868 report lamented, ‘I regret that so few find their way into the Bible class.’
- Especially if the smaller nation is not at full strength or peak condition, which Signurvinsson laments will be the case with Iceland this weekend.
- The Times lamented a loss of innocence and grieved over a world in which everything had changed.
- Food is a passion of Johnston's, and he laments the erosion of quality from the food we buy throughout the years.
- The few that do realise that life can be different, less enervating, lament but rarely complain, grumble but never protest.
Synonyms bemoan, bewail, complain about, deplore, regret, rue protest against, speak out against, object to, oppose, disagree with, fulminate against, inveigh against, rail at, make a fuss about, denounce
Derivativesnoun The Quivering presents three women in the roles of carer, siren and cultural lamenter - whatever that means!
OriginLate Middle English (as a verb): from French lamenter or Latin lamentari, from lamenta (plural) 'weeping, wailing'. Rhymesabsent, accent, anent, ascent, assent, augment, bent, cement, cent, circumvent, consent, content, dent, event, extent, ferment, foment, forewent, forwent, frequent, gent, Ghent, Gwent, leant, lent, meant, misrepresent, misspent, outwent, pent, percent, pigment, rent, scent, segment, sent, spent, stent, Stoke-on-Trent, Tashkent, tent, torment, Trent, underspent, underwent, vent, went Definition of lament in US English: lamentnounləˈmɛntləˈment 1A passionate expression of grief or sorrow. 悲痛;伤心;悲悼 his mother's night-long laments for his father 他母亲对他父亲的整夜悲悼。 a song full of lament and sorrow 一首充满哀伤的歌。 Example sentencesExamples - The theme of the passionate love of the Lancasters for England sounds in the lament by Bolingbroke for the country he must leave.
- As Joy Division, they ripped up rock's rule book by making music that was heavy and subtle, glacial, yet full of lament - Love Will Tear Us Apart has just been chosen as one of The Brits 25 best songs ever written.
- It begins in the middle of an epistolary lament from the father of the bride and ends with a subtle allusion to a ceremony whose express purpose is to make Byzantine imperial presence more real.
- She could hear every halting breath, every tear drip off his chin, and every soft moan a painful lament.
- All those living who heard her lament were deeply moved.
- Paradise Lost is of course in its largest sense a lament for the loss of human innocence.
- ‘Lamentate’ is a lament not for the dead but the living, struggling with the pain and hopelessness of the world.
- Everything was on target in this by turns fierce, passionate and stoic gypsy lament.
- Cleopatra's response, though, suggests that she too intends suicide, and she confirms this in the passionate lament that follows his death.
- The narrator seems to thrive on pain and on the lyrical laments of all the voices telling tales of woe in the narrative, and its very form captures the unpredictability and riffs of jazz.
- The Ritsos poem was actually written after demonstrations in Thessaloniki in May 1936, and it's the lament of a mother whose son, taking part in the demonstrations, has been killed by the police.
- Among the musicians in her Boston-based company, Boston Flamenco, is Fernando de Malaga, a flamenco singer who is the real thing - you can hear the lament in his voice.
- Dusty stood it on its head and made it a passionate lament of loneliness and love.
- Her lament does not express regret for a breach of fidelity, but rather the deep sadness of the final farewell.
- Her lush sensuality remains intact, but the unctuous, buttery impasto and singing colour contrast past felicity with present vacancy, and blend lyricism with passionate lament.
- The lament of a mother for her child lost to the mighty blow of life brought a lump in the throat and tears to the eyes of the kindred spirits.
- And the closing title track, where the Kronos strings weep sad harmonies, is a lament of utter anguish unlike anything else on the disc.
- An assessment of great music should allow for a wider variety of moods and expressions - lament, meander, laughter, rage, gallows humor, resignation, and much more.
- In contrast, the only explicit messianic reference to Humbert appeared in a version of a lament in Irish for Father Manus Sweeney, a beloved Mayo priest who participated in the Rebellion and was later hanged.
- Everything moves, everything's clear, the dances dance, the laments grieve.
Synonyms wail, wailing, lamentation, moan, moaning, groan, weeping, crying, sob, sobbing, keening, howl, complaint - 1.1 A song, piece of music, or poem expressing sorrow.
挽歌,哀乐,哀诗 Example sentencesExamples - His music, comprising mostly songs, dance-tunes, laments, and some religious pieces, draws upon native tradition but was also influenced by European composers such as Vivaldi and Corelli.
- We had been warned that Ann Lamont-Low, whose moving lament concludes the piece, was ill and, indeed, for the first few bars she sounded more like Nico than Marilyn Klinghoffer.
- I could have sworn I heard a piper playing a lament.
- Not even the peasantry escaped, as was well appreciated by those who sang the popular lament, ‘Song of the Husbandman’, in Edward I's reign.
- An Irish lament was then played on the flute by Boyle musician Brendan Gaffney.
- Starting as a melancholic lament, the music slowly intruded into the action and eventually drowned out the longer speeches.
- A Scottish piper will play a lament from the control tower at Elvington Airfield during the funeral service in the hangar tomorrow at 12.30 pm.
- I loved the mixture in myself; the sad Irish laments and the lilting Scottish songs.
- During the wreath laying ceremony young pipers from Marlborough College played a lament.
- The girls are singing a sad lament in Sinhalese: ‘Old sea waves, you have kidnapped us ’.
- The mourning mother recirculates the lament of the earlier lines as Orpheus and Calliope are themselves ‘fall'n on evil days.’
- He played graveside laments for those he liked, mourned and admired.
- Music for the coffee concert will include Irish traditional dance music, laments and the music of O'Carolan.
- Pre-Christian epic ballads, agricultural songs, laments, and tales dating back to before the tenth century were recorded for the first time in the seventeenth century.
- Next to love songs are laments of exile; ‘Djunda Djunda’ tells of government corruption.
- Everyone was dressed in deepest black, and sang laments for the King.
- A lot of the sentiment of the movie is delivered through songs in the cabaret, which are old Taiwanese songs, mainly cheesy laments about past love.
- The show is packed full of stirring anthems, plaintive laments and unforgettable love songs sung by a first-class cast and backed by the Lyric Opera Orchestra.
- The piece is a lament, but he never referred to its connections or dedication, although he goes way back into time in a setting of the bardic song Cathleen ni Hoolihan.
Synonyms dirge, requiem, elegy, funeral chant, funeral song, burial hymn, dead march, keen, plaint, knell - 1.2 An expression of regret or disappointment; a complaint.
遗憾,抱怨 there were constant laments about the conditions of employment 经常有人抱怨就业状况。 Example sentencesExamples - His constant lament was that the Tamil stage had not come of age.
- Old-timers may find support for their constant laments that the game is steadily going downhill by citing the glittering example of 19th Century owner Chris Von der Ahe.
- The lament expressed by Lomax is one being made quite frequently by higher education officials around the nation.
- The first post-election caucus meeting would appear to provide an ideal opportunity for MPs to voice private laments about an election gone awry and about the first half-year of Paul Martin's leadership.
- The constant in recent games has been a lament from opponents about being pushed around.
- The same lament about constant meddling from politicians could be applied to education where since the eighties there has been reform followed by contradictory reform.
- Despite modern laments about medieval colonialism, the crusade's real purpose was to turn back Muslim conquests and restore formerly Christian lands to Christian control.
- The remaining inmate of Mr Peggotty's hospitable home is Mrs Gummidge, another dependant and a widow, whose peevish laments for her forlorn condition are patiently borne by Mr Peggotty.
- Talk to intranet champions at big enterprises, and you'll soon hear a familiar, poignant lament.
- And this well-worn lament is never more true than when it applies to country crafts.
- The familiar lament by mothers everywhere may have a kernel of scientific truth.
- A common lament about American literature is that it lacks the political and social scope of other traditions.
- So it hurts Kapoor to hear the oft-repeated lament that Indian publishers don't pay royalties.
- From all sides came laments about wilful absenteeism: as the factory-owners complained, the workers just dropped their tools and disappeared ‘whenever they felt like it’.
- A common lament of many Waterloo students is the lack of a local music scene.
- Dilsey tells her such talk is ridiculous, but Mrs. Compson enjoys complaining, so continues with her laments.
- Until recently, such fantasies were expressed mainly by the far right, or in the laments of despondent Oxbridge dons.
- But everywhere I turn, there is a constant keening lament about how bad the site has gotten, as compared to its long-past Glory Days.
- You could definitely hear their plaintive laments.
verbləˈmɛntləˈment [with object]1Mourn (a person's loss or death) 哀悼 he was lamenting the death of his infant daughter 他在哀悼他幼女的夭折。 Example sentencesExamples - The Minukku Vesham of the Brahmana, who laments the tragic deaths of his children before Arjuna, is one of the masterpiece roles of the sexagenarian actor.
- The odd way both men speak at once, the finality and harshness of their summing up can not but remind one of the choruses of Greek Tragedies, who describe and lament the deaths of heroes.
- Egyptian intellectuals and media on Friday morning lamented the death of Sherif at the hands of his kidnappers.
- In one of Chaucer's earliest poems, The Book of the Duchess, a knight is overheard in the forest lamenting the death of his lady.
- The Federation of Chambers of Commerce and Industry of Sri Lanka lamented his death as a ‘great loss to the industrial sector of the country’.
- Talking with his mother, the narrator laments God's apparent detachment and the apparent reasons that he and his family are too inconsequential to receive any special divine attention.
- Like Mr. Kammer, I lament the many needless deaths caused by self-adoring amateurs playing war from the safety of Washington offices.
- But our first duty as Christians is to mourn and lament such deaths, not to use violence in response to them.
- In his weekly column, Kavalek laments the death of George Koltanowski.
- Yesterday, Cassie's distraught grandmother, Elizabeth Chery, fought to hold back the tears as she lamented his loss.
- Therefore I seek your indulgence to allow me to lament my grief.
- One of MacNeil's most important roles as clan bard is to eulogise and lament the deaths of important clan members.
- We follow haphazardly, as he laments the death of his friend from cancer at 29.
- A number of women became famous for their poems inciting warriors to fight fiercely, lamenting death or defeat, or celebrating victory.
- Cybele found her son's body and returned with him to Mount Ida, where she lamented his death.
- Queen Elizabeth laments the death of Edward and fears for her children's safety.
- Only the common people, who benefited from his extravagant spending, lamented his death.
- In their voices I could hear the sorrow of a mother, of a village, lamenting their losses and mourning for their children.
- He continues to sit in the wreckage of the camp, however, lamenting the deaths of his friends and wondering what he can possibly do next.
- All Lebanon lamented his death as one man and honoured him with a hero's funeral.
Synonyms mourn, grieve, grieve for, grieve over, weep for, shed tears for - 1.1lament for/overno object Express one's deep grief about.
Example sentencesExamples - When the daughter was to leave by the sedan chair, the mother lamented over her lonely life to come and could not stop crying.
- He lamented over this until three days before his separation when one of the men in his barracks deserted.
- Even Jesus suffered internally at different times in his life. He wept, for example, at the tomb of his dear friend Lazarus and lamented over the hardness of heart he saw in the people of Jerusalem.
- Laurel almost felt sympathy for it - she knew it was odd to lament for a lightning rod, but the thing was so excruciatingly personified in its madness that it seemed coldhearted not to feel for it.
- Many Republicans lament for the good-ole-days when voter disenfranchisement was straightforward.
- John MacArthur once lamented over a story of someone who said he spoke to Jesus every morning while shaving.
- This displacement recurred when Castabella lamented over her forced marriage.
- 1.2reporting verb Express regret or disappointment over something considered unsatisfactory, unreasonable, or unfair.
惋惜,表示失望 with object she lamented the lack of shops in the town 她哀叹城中缺少商店。 with direct speech Thomas Jefferson later lamented, “Heaven remained silent.” Example sentencesExamples - Auban laments how this heroic battle against authority ended the ‘right to free speech on Trafalgar Square’.
- Battle laments, ‘I was not very knowledgeable about the stock market,’ when she began investing with her first financial advisor.
- Especially if the smaller nation is not at full strength or peak condition, which Signurvinsson laments will be the case with Iceland this weekend.
- Still, my poor mother laments: ‘You express yourself so beautifully, surely you can find other words.’
- In her piece she generally laments culturally perpetuated generalizations.
- Political historians have lamented the death of political history since the 1960s and 1970s onslaught of social and cultural historians.
- ‘I'm the old man around here,’ Diamond laments with a laugh.
- The film is shot in washed out colour and bears grim tidings for all who lament the earlier and earlier death of childhood.
- He laments the death of progress in the modern era.
- Food is a passion of Johnston's, and he laments the erosion of quality from the food we buy throughout the years.
- One critic laments that such music ‘plays a smaller role in middle-class life than at any time since Beethoven's death.’
- The Times lamented a loss of innocence and grieved over a world in which everything had changed.
- Like certain bloggers with a professional interest in the academy, McPhee laments the difficulties involved in obtaining taxpayer dollars for the worthy work she insists is going on beneath the dreaming spires.
- ‘This was my seventh Challenge and I've come near each time, but never been a winner,’ a disappointed Smith lamented.
- Some wanted retribution and called for the death penalty for convicted police murderers, while others lamented the decline of their communities.
- The few that do realise that life can be different, less enervating, lament but rarely complain, grumble but never protest.
- For years, dive operators and visitors to Phuket have lamented that the area lacked a decent sized wreck.
- For years we've lamented the level of deaths on our roads.
- The writer of the 1868 report lamented, ‘I regret that so few find their way into the Bible class.’
- I'm sure you've seen at least one article lamenting the death of rock journalism.
Synonyms bemoan, bewail, complain about, deplore, regret, rue
OriginLate Middle English (as a verb): from French lamenter or Latin lamentari, from lamenta (plural) ‘weeping, wailing’. |