Types of translating of proverbs?

metaphrase: This form, word for word, does not usually work well for proverbs.

paraphrase: This form is better for translating proverbs. This is not word for word but rather gives a paraphrase of what the writer is communicating.

imitation: This type of translation would be the prefered one for proverb; it sometimes is called "localization" because it trive to preserve the global content rather than the meaning of the words.

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