The most accurate way is to have a human who is knowledgeable in both languages translate it. Furthermore, there may be instances where something is technically correct according to grammatical rules, but incorrect in actual usage (for example, idiomatic expressions).
Surely you could translate "It's raining cats and dogs" into a language, like Italian: "Piove gatti e cani", but an Italian would probably look at you as if you had 2 heads. And it's not limited to these catchy phrases; there are many grammatical structures that are simply idiomatic.
We can only imagine that in the future there will be C3PO-like machines 'fluent in over 6 million forms of communication' :-) But, until that day comes, you're stuck with humans.
Good luck!
edit: Thanks for the correction, martox; it just goes to show how translating idiomatic expressions can be quite difficult!|||It's not yet existing such a thing and I guess it will never. Any of the currently available on line translators (and not just the ones which are free) can't translate "accurately" any language.
However it's quite obvious that even human translations are highly depending on the specific knowledge. As here above answerer said there are idiomatic expressions that can't be rendered word by word and also who has a pretty good grasping of a second language can make fatal mistakes, same as I'm surely doing in this answer. In fact I'm Italian mother tongue and with reference to the example made by previous answerer (It's raining cats and dogs) I confirm an Italian would look at you as if you had 3 heads and not just 2 since correct word by word translation would be "Piovono cani e gatti" (not "Piove cani a gatti).
So everybody knows the Italian idiomatic expression with the same meaning is "Piove a catinelle" (It's raining with buckets down) !|||There isn't really anything that good for free.|||the best in the net is
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