原句是In most of the homeless gardens of New York City the actual cultivation of plants is unfeasible, yet even so the compositions often seem to represent attempts to call forth the spirit of plant and animal life, if only symbolically, through a clumplike arrangement ofmaterials, an introduction of colors, small pools of water, and a frequent presence of petals or leaves as well as of stuffed animals.
我在Collins字典里找到了一个跟它非常像的词“clump-like”。但clumplike真的是哪儿都找不到啊~
请问，有人了解clumplike的意思是吗？
你了解构成法即可，名词+like得到一个形容词，像...一样的。说话人可以随便临时杜撰一个新词，大家都了解的意思是。比如，piglike, 像猪一样的。这种词你仅需了解like前面的名词的意思是即可。
clump作为名词，有丛、块的意思，结合上下文，clumplike arrangement意为：一块块或一丛丛那样的安排。
