浮回看得見的地方
這一組全都是同一個動作，只是浮上來的東西不一樣：先是人或動物浮出水面，再來是失蹤的物品，最後是沉了很久的話題和情緒。
verb · B2
To come back up to the top of the water after being under it.
浮出水面
核心畫面
You can picture a who goes under and stays down. For a while there is nothing to look at, just water. Then a head breaks through and everything is visible again. That moment of coming back up into view is what resurface holds. The gap matters as much as the return: something has to have gone out of sight first. A second picture sits beside it, because surface is also the outer skin of a thing — the layer you drive on, skate on, or stand on — and resurface can mean giving that worn skin a new one.
這個字的畫面可以想成：一個人潛進水裡，沉下去，有一段時間水面上什麼都看不到。然後一顆頭冒出來，人又回到看得見的地方。…更多收起
這個字的畫面可以想成：一個人潛進水裡，沉下去，有一段時間水面上什麼都看不到。然後一顆頭冒出來，人又回到看得見的地方。resurface 抓住的就是「再一次冒出水面」那一刻。中間那段空白跟浮上來一樣重要，東西必須先消失過。旁邊還有另一個畫面，因為 surface 也可以指一個東西最外面那層皮，就是我們開車踩過、溜冰滑過、站上去的那一層。把磨壞的那層換新，英文也叫 resurface。From the word’s history
The source entry analyses the word as re- (again) plus surface, with re- coming through Latin and Old French and surface through Middle French. So the shape of the word is literally again + surface, and both modern pictures read straight off it.
來源條目把這個字拆成 re-（再一次）加 surface。re- 經由拉丁文和古法文進入英文，surface 則來自中古法文。所以這個字的字面就是「再一次＋表面」。今天的兩個畫面都可以直接從這個組合讀出來：一個是再回到水面，一個是再給它一層新的表面。
Wiktionary entry for 'resurface' (kaikki extract supplied in this packet): 'From re- + surface.' / etymology tree listing Latin re-, Old French re-, Middle French surface.
Two branches
換上一層新的表面
這一支不是前面那個畫面的比喻，而是 surface 另一個意思長出來的：不是「水面」，而是「一個東西最外層的皮」。兩支共用同一個字，但走的是不同的路。
verb · B2
To put a new top layer on a road so that it is smooth and even again.
重鋪路面