保证: guarantee, to guarantee, to ensure, to safeguard, to pledge...
乘坐: to ride (in a vehicle)...
年初: beginning of the year...
种植: to plant, to grow (a crop), to cultivate...
口头: oral, verbal...
一半: half...
新型: new type, new kind...
烫: to scald, to burn (by scalding), to blanch (cooking), to heat (sth) up in hot water, to perm, to iron, scalding hot...
随处可见: be seen everywhere...
越发: increasingly, more and more, ever more, all the more...