While the anniversary was an official holiday in South Ossetia and Abkhazia, it was a somber occasion in the Georgian capital Tbilisi.

VOA: standard.2009.08.26

So that's the last music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and his pupil, Suessmayr, and--not to leave you in a somber mood-- let's listen to Louis Armstrong as we go out. Okay?

那么,这就是莫札特和他的学生,苏斯迈尔一起完成的他最后的音乐,好了,别沉浸于忧郁的心情里,让我们聆听下路易斯·阿姆斯特朗的音乐,来领着我们下课吧,好吗

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

Minor: somber.

小调,忧郁低沉

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

Far more somber was the director of Mr.Obama's National Economic Council, Larry Summers,who spoke on Fox News Sunday.

VOA: standard.2009.03.15

The mood this Easter in the Abruzzo region was somber as many prayed for relatives and friends they lost to the quake.

VOA: standard.2009.04.12

A rain-soaked President Obama delivered a somber message from a Coast Guard station on Louisiana's threatened coastline.

VOA: standard.2010.05.02

In the seaside village,Leone, others filled Holy Cross Catholic church for a more somber service.

VOA: standard.2009.10.05

Interviewed on the BBC, the influential billionaire investor George Soros delivered a somber assessment.

VOA: standard.2009.03.29

Coming after a week of almost-universally upbeat economic data that buoyed U.S.markets, Wednesday's more-somber news is a reality-check, according to Alan Brown of Schroders, an asset management company.

VOA: standard.2009.08.05

"I think the mood is very somber, I would call it."

VOA: standard.2010.03.01