赵薇夫妇投资31亿港元买入阿里巴巴影业股票，消息公告后在娱乐圈轰动一时。请看本报周五的报道：

    Chinese actress Zhao Wei and her husband bought nearly a 9.2 percent stake in Alibaba Pictures Group for HK$3.1 billion (US$400 million), a Hong Kong exchange filing showed. The news made a splash in China’s show business world this week.

    Zhao and her husband, Huang Youlong, have become the company’s second-largest shareholders, according to a Hong Kong exchange filing, after acquiring 1.93 billion shares of Alibaba Pictures at an average price of HK$1.6 each in December last year.

    报道中的splash就是“水花四溅”，make a splash就是“引起轰动”。例如：

    He has been holding back on advertising spending and is ready to make a splash.

    他在广告支出方面一直有所保留，现在准备开始大肆宣传。