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[klea-klea.livejournal.com]

Господа, как бы вы перевели это диалог? Контекст - у ребят был удачный год в делах фирмы.

-I thought it was the tan of the year.
-Tan of the year? You’re a little light.

Comments

[mischa (from livejournal.com)]

что за фирма?

[clittary-hilton.livejournal.com]

в молодежных лагерях, круизах и т.п. затейники разыгрывают "tan of the year" awards, то есть "приз за лучший загар"... это выражение может употребляться в переносном смысле:

- I thought it was the tan of the year.
(Мне казалось, это лучший загар года!)

- Tan of the year? You’re a little light.
(Лучший загар? бледноват ты, Вася)

[pm771.livejournal.com]

Didn't know that. I guess that what happens when you cross the ocean at the adult age.

[ex-co-lum-bu730.livejournal.com]

Me neither.

It does not seem to be a very common expression, though: google barely gives 10 hits. Maybe it was an old-fashioned enterntainment obsolete by the time we arrived to the States.

[clittary-hilton.livejournal.com]

I think the expression became obsolete since sun became politically incorrect... my children never heard of this expression... I was somewhat suprised but admit I may have heard it only once or twice myself

I may have sent a canard flying, but there is no other way I can understand this sentence without a wider context

By the way, expression you are a little light usually means you are short of money but this hardly helps...

[ex-co-lum-bu730.livejournal.com]

Your interpretation looks very plausible to me. Maybe the author belongs to an older generation.

[clittary-hilton.livejournal.com]

this particular knoweldge one can live without... this is not something on everybody's lips

[klea-klea.livejournal.com]

Большое спасибо.

[mario-lander.livejournal.com]

Первая часть фразы действительно содержит намек на некий конкурс-соревнование.
Вторая - игра слов "годовой загар".
"Tan of the (whole) year? You are a little light."

"Для годового загара ты слегка бледноват..."
Me thinketh так.