又摇又滚 能好看吗?
“Rocking and rolling. How can they look good?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“The rock singers all look weird.”
又摇又滚 能好看吗 ?
“Rocking and rolling. How can they look good?”
“What a heavy bag for a third grader.”
“Of course they look weird; how could anyone look good violently shaking around?”
Deconstructing a loanword or compound like '摇滚' (rock and roll) into literal verbs ('摇' to shake, '滚' to roll) is a common form of Chinese colloquial wit.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
how could it look good? (obviously it doesn't)
A rhetorical question structure ('能...吗') strongly asserting the impossibility or negative quality of something.
Marks the rhetorical question, demanding agreement that the outcome is negative.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Will you go away or not?”
“scram right now! Get lost! I won't stop you!”
“Get out! Out! - Don't do this. - Move aside!”
“get out of my sight right now.”
“Move! What are you doing?”
“If you don't go, I'll really get mad.”