一潭死水

In those days, the literary and artistic circles were in a pool of stagnation, with nothing but those plays.

These two people all day long board face, not a word, the whole home is like a pool of stagnation water, there is no sound.

We are all young people on our side, talking and laughing. The office next door was full of old men, and without any anger, the stagnation of water would suffocate people.