we have always been at war with Eastasia

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  1. Used to highlight a situation in which circumstances have changed, yet this change has gone unacknowledged or is being denied. humorous
    — Now it truly is as if it never existed in this repository! And we've always been at war with Eastasia.

词形变化

we have always been at war with East Asia alternative we have always been at war with Eurasia alternative we've always been at war with Eastasia alternative we've always been at war with East Asia alternative we've always been at war with Eurasia alternative

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From the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) by George Orwell, in which the world is divided into the superpowers of Eastasia, Eurasia and Oceania. Oceania is in a state of perpetual war with one of the other powers but its alliance keeps shifting, and the government never acknowledges that its current adversary is its former ally and vice versa.
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