we have always been at war with Eastasia

短语

别名

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

释义与例句

phr.
  1. 1.

    Used to highlight a situation in which circumstances have changed, yet this change has gone unacknowledged or is being denied.

    幽默

词源

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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