没: drowned, to end, to die, to inundate...
难以: hard to (predict, imagine etc)...
南边: south, south side, southern part, to the south of...
往: go; head/leave for...
手法: technique, trick, skill...
燃烧: to ignite, to combust, to burn, combustion, flaming...
论述: treatise, discourse, exposition...
温习: to review (a lesson etc)...
家家户户: each and every family (idiom), every household...
老家: native place, place of origin, home state or region...