1 Liu Bei (161-223), warlord at the end of the Han dynasty and founder of the Han kingdom of Shu 蜀漢|蜀汉 (c. 200-263), later the Shu Han dynasty

1 preparation

2 to prepare

3 to intend

4 to be about to

5 reserve (fund)

1 equipment

2 to equip

3 to outfit

1 to forecast

2 to predict

1 to prepare

2 get ready

3 to provide or equip

1 to take advantage of sb in an unguarded moment (idiom)

2 to take sb by surprise

1 to have suffered all kinds of hardships (idiom)

1 beyond expectation (idiom); unexpected

1 to catch an enemy off guard with a surprise attack (idiom, from Sunzi's "The Art of War" 孫子兵法|孙子兵法[Sūn zǐ Bīng fǎ])

1 (idiom) don't say you haven't been forewarned (threat used by the PRC in international diplomacy)