The present disclosure provides a method, apparatus, electronic device and readable storage medium for translation and relates to translation technologies. In the embodiments of the present disclosure, the at least one knowledge element is obtained according to associated information of content to be translated, and respective knowledge element in the at least one knowledge element comprise an element of the first language type and an element of the second language type so that the at least one knowledge element can be used to obtain a translation result of the content to be translated. Since the at least one knowledge element obtained in advance is taken as global information of the translation task of this time, it can be ensured that the translation result of the same content to be translated is consistent, thereby improving the quality of the translation result.