coin

Compared meaning: to make coins, especially officially (verb).

比较义项：铸造（硬币）（动词）。

• mint

  Used for official, authorized production of coins or currency, typically by a national mint; it is the standard modern verb, often in the passive (‘coins are minted’).

  指官方、经授权的硬币或货币铸造，通常由国家造币厂进行；是现代标准用词，常用被动语态（如“硬币被铸造”）。

  The Royal Mint has minted every British coin for over a thousand years.

  英国皇家造币厂一千多年来一直负责铸造每一枚英国硬币。

• coin 本词

  Refers especially to an individual, often illegal, production of coins outside official channels (a counterfeiter is called a ‘coiner’); in this literal sense it now sounds dated or legalistic rather than everyday.

  尤指个人在官方渠道之外私自（往往是非法地）铸造硬币，私铸假币的人被称为 coiner；在这个字面意义上，这个词如今显得陈旧、带法律文书色彩，不是日常用词。

  The counterfeiter was arrested for coining fake silver shillings in his cellar.

  那名造假币者因在自家地窖里私铸假银先令而被捕。

Mint and coin both mean to make coins. Mint is the modern, standard word for official, legal coin-making by a government. Coin sounds old-fashioned here, meaning illegal, private coin-making, done by a coiner. Coin's common meaning, to invent a new phrase, is not compared.

这两个词在“铸造硬币”这个意义上很接近，但语体和使用场合不同：mint 是现代标准用词，指政府造币厂正式、合法地铸造硬币或货币；coin 在这个字面意义上较为陈旧、书面化，尤其常用于个人（往往是非法）私铸硬币的语境，私铸假币的人叫 coiner。此外，coin 更常见的意义是“创造（新词语、新说法）”，如 to coin a phrase，这里不作比较。