i found theirs no easy way to translate it you just have to understand the sounds before you can understand the meaning to it. one thing you can do is go onto About.com and search for "learning Kanji" and theirs alot of lessons from elementary to advance lessons up. or you can buy Flash cards. i bought Japanese in a flash. they have flash cards that show you how to use it in a word and sentence. when your learning kanji dont just write it down. practice writing it over and over again till you can identify it. also to help you memorize it, stick tissue in your ears and say the name of the kanji out loud. the sound will reverberate inside your head helping you to remember the sound of it.
BUT if you want to translate certain kanji go here
Online Translator: English-Japanese - en/ja
they translate the kanji into english.