How to do a quality English and Chinese translation?

Some guidelines are useful:

1. free translation (pragmatic level of the content) is better than literal translation (semantic level of the content).
2. dissimilarities in English and Chinese langugages: English---hypotaxis, Chinese---parataxis; English---nouns are more preferable than verbs, Chinese---verbs are more preferable than nouns.
3. translation should be idiomatic.
4. translation criteria: faithfulness, fluency and elegance.

Fen, Chuan Tsai, 2000, Translation theory Chinese <--> English. University of Western Sydney.