A hacienda is a large farm or country estate in the Spanish-speaking world, especially Mexico and parts of Latin America: not a small family field, but a big piece of land with a main house, workers, and often cattle or crops.

A haciendahacienda（大莊園） is a large farm or country estate in the Spanish-speaking world, especially Mexico and parts of Latin America是西語世界——尤其是墨西哥和拉丁美洲部分地區——的大型農場或鄉間莊園 not a small family field不是小小的家庭農地 but a big piece of land with a main house, workers, and often cattle or crops而是一大片土地，上面有主屋、工人，通常還有牛群或作物

English borrowed the Spanish word and kept its flavour, so we use it for that kind of place, not for a farm in Taiwan or England.

English borrowed the Spanish word and kept its flavour英文借用了這個西班牙字，也保留了它的味道 so we use it for that kind of place所以我們用它來指那種地方 not for a farm in Taiwan or England不會拿來指台灣或英國的農場

The tidy picture is “a big farm.” The messier truth is that historically a hacienda often meant land in a few hands, with many labourers, and sometimes a hard social story behind the pretty house. Tourist English sometimes shrinks it to “a handsome old ranch house,” which is only the front door of the meaning.

The tidy picture is "a big farm."整齊的畫面是「一個大農場」 The messier truth is that historically a hacienda often meant land in a few hands比較複雜的事實是，歷史上hacienda常常代表土地集中在少數人手裡 with many labourers有許多勞工 and sometimes a hard social story behind the pretty house而漂亮的莊園房子背後，有時藏著一段艱苦的社會故事 Tourist English sometimes shrinks it to "a handsome old ranch house,"觀光用語有時候把它簡化成「一棟氣派的老牧場房子」 which is only the front door of the meaning那只是這個字意思的門面而已