the_content( $label_readmore ) not working

Hi,

I’m trying to translate the ‘(more…)’ introduced by default when using the cut-off tag <!–more–> for the post to be excerpted.

So I’m declaring before the loop
$label_readmore = apply_filters( 'label_readmore', '... (read more)' );

During loop:
<?php the_content($label_readmore); ?>

And in functions,
stella_translate_string( 'label_readmore', '... (read more)', array( 'en'=>'... (read more)', 'pt'=>'... (ler mais)') );

Unfortunately, it doesn’t work for the non-default language..

Do you have any solution?

Thanks

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