to make a very serious promise that something is true
做出一个非常严肃的承诺，证明某事是真实的 (zuòchū yīgè fēicháng yánsù de chéngnuò, zhèngmíng mǒu shì shì zhēnshí de)
"I swear on my life, I didn’t do it!"
"我发誓以我的生命，我没有做！" (Wǒ **fāshì yǐ wǒ de shēngmìng**, wǒ méiyǒu zuò!)
to take an indirect route
to start working seriously
creative ideas that are not limited by current thinking
a sudden and powerful beginning; often used metaphorically
to decide to do something risky or difficult
to begin something, like a journey, very successfully
