拟声词的汉译大致可以按照以下三种情况来处理。
A. 使用拟声词，常常可以使表达更加生动形象，所以，大部分拟声词一般对应译为相应的拟声词。
(1) Crack! The stick broke in two. 咔擦！棒子断为两截。
(2) They hissed him off the stage,他们把他喊下 了台。
(3) The clock ticked, the fire cracked. 钟声滴滴答答，火声噼噼啪啪。
(4) A bitter storm of sleet, dense and ice-cold, swept the wet streets, and rattled on the trembling windows. 剌骨的暴风夹着密集而寒冷的雨雪，扫过湿漉漉的街道， 打得颤抖的窗子格格作响。
(5) There is no retreat, but in submission and slavery! Our chains are forged! Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! (Patrick Henry) 我们已经没有退路，要退只有含垢忍辱，沦为奴隶了。囚禁我们的铁链已经铸就了。波士顿平原上已可听到锁链啷当的声响。（生动形象）

B. 拟声词不具体翻译，直接描绘动作。
恰当地使用拟声词可增强感染力，使语言表达更加形象生动。但如果拟声词用得过滥或不得体，也会造成译文语言轻佻、累赘，从而破坏原文的表现力。因此原文中的拟声词有时可以不具体翻译，而直接描绘动作(如例(1)〜(3))，或弱化处理(如例⑷〜(5))
(1) They splashed through the mire to the village. 他们一路路着泥泞向村子走去。
(2) There was a large, low-ceiling room, with clacking, rattling machines. 有一大间天花板很低的屋子，里面的机器响成一片。
(3) The ship hooted down the river. 那船沿江而下。
(4) Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels and have not charity, I am becoming a sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. 我若能说万人的方言，并天使的话语，而没有爱，我就成了鸣的锣、响的钹一般。（简洁、有力）
(5) On my way to school I can see the babbling water in the brook, hear the frogs creaking, cuckoos cuckooing, sparrows chirping in the woods. 上学的路上，我能看见溪中的潺潺流水，能听见青蛙鸣、杜鹃啼、麻雀叫。（简洁对称）

C. 有时即使原文没有使用拟声词，为了增强表达效果,译文中亦可使用拟声词。
(1) The logs were burning briskly in the fire. 木材在火中辞辞啪啪烧得正旺。
(2) He crashed down on a protesting chair. 他猛然坐到一把椅子上，椅子被压得吱吱作响。
(3) The lad rushed in, gasping for breath. 小伙子冲进来，呼哧呼哧上气不接下气。
(4) The wind whispered in the pines. 风在松林中飒飒作响。
(5) 这时，长城线上，烽火连天，一辆马车，向南急驰。At a time when the war was raging along the Great Wall，a carriage went rumbling swiftly southwards.