cookie
/ˈkʊkɪ/noun
(pl. -ies)
1
- N. Amer. a sweet biscuit〈北美〉甜饼干, 曲奇饼。
2
- with adj. informal a person of a specified kind〈非正式〉特别的人; 特别的家伙：
a tough cookie with one eye on her bank account
觊觎她银行账户的恶棍。
3
- Scottish a plain bun〈苏格兰〉淡面包。
4
- Computing a packet of data sent by an Internet server to a browser, which is returned by the browser each time it subsequently accesses the same server, used to identify the user or track their access to the server.【计算机】（因特网服务器存放在浏览器的）信息包。
短语
that's the way the cookie crumbles
- informal, N. Amer. that's how things turn out (often used of as an undesirable but unalterable situation)〈非正式, 北美〉事情就这样了（常指不希望出现但又无法改变的情形）。
词源
early 18th cent.: from Dutch koekje 'little cake', diminutive of koek.