In the 20th century, there was praise as well as criticism in all kinds of books about him. The criticism was mainly from William Tyler’s - an English sailor on Dingyuan - memoir. But there were also widely accepted ideas that there was a personal enmity between William Tyler and Liu Buchan and that William Tyler’s words were unreliable. But there were two opinions that were really accepted. First, Liu Buchan lacked adequate experience before he was appointed as the captain of Dingyuan and training and command were very bad under him. Second, he was addicted to taking opium all the time, which was universal among his troops.[1]

在二十世纪，各种各样的书中都有赞扬和批评。批评主要来自William Tyler——一位定远的英国水手——回忆录。但也有人普遍认为William Tyler和刘步蟾之间有个人恩怨，William Tyler的话不可靠。但有两个意见，真正接受。首先，刘步蟾在被任命为定远队长之前缺乏足够的经验，在他手下训练和指挥都很糟糕。第二，他一直吸食鸦片，这在他的军队中是普遍的。[ 1 ]。

蟾蟾怎么可能经验不足，，训练和指挥都很糟糕，怎么可能啊

对啊，泰莱么，头号蟾黑。

刘步蟾吸鸦片从来就没确凿证据；这段英文连定远都写成“DingYuan”还有啥可说？