刘表

一次，刘表请刘备代替他到襄阳去会见百官，蔡氏兄妹觉得这是杀害刘备的好机会。

Cai and her brother decided it was an good opportunity .

刘表手下有一人颇懂相马术，言此马有妨主之相，劝刘表将马还给刘备。

Following the expert 's advice , Liu Biao returned the horse to Liu Bei .

刘表的夫人蔡氏和其兄蔡瑁早有杀害刘备之心。

Liu Biao 's wife Cai and her brother had long wished to Xiangyang to meet some officials .

荆州刺史刘表看后禁不住连声称赞。刘备见刘表如此喜欢，将此马送给了刘表。

When Liu Biao marveled at the steed ， Liu Bei gave it to him as a gift .

此外曹军中还有许多步兵和全部的水兵是刘表的降兵，许多人并不真心忠于曹操。

Besides some of the Cao Cao 's army and all of the fleet had formerly served Liu Bi-ao , they were undecided about their new master .

曹操为了扩大自己的努力，想请人去刘表那里游说，孔融就推荐了他的好朋友祢衡。

Mi Heng was recommended to Cao Cao when the latter ， to expand his infL ü ence ， needed someone to lobby Liu Biao . But Mi was slighted .

孙权字仲谋，三国吴国的创建者，其父孙坚是效忠袁绍的大将，和刘表作战时被杀，其兵力被袁绍接管。

His father Sun Jian , a general in the service of Yuan Shu , was killed in campaign a-gainst Liu Biao and his forces were largely taken over by Yuan Shu .

那天被请而不来的，有汪氏夫妇和刘氏夫妇。刘表的夫人蔡氏和其兄蔡瑁早有杀害刘备之心。

Among those who had been invited but did not attend that day were Mr. and Mrs. Wang and Mr. and Mrs. Liu . Cai and her brother decided it was an good opportunity .

203年，他开始西征扩张土地，208年，他打败刘表的大将黄忠，取得了现在位于长江中游地段的武汉等地。

By 203 he started to expand further to the west , and early in 208 he destroyed Huang Zhong , the subordinate commander of Liu Biao who controlled the territory about present-day Wuhan on the middle Yangtze River .

公元200年，在曹操与袁绍的官渡之战中，刘备被曹操打败，投奔刘表。

In 200 , however , at the time of the campaign between Cao Cao and Yuan Shao at Guan-du , Liu Bei was thoroughly defeated by Cao Cao " s forces and fled to take refuge with Liu Biao .