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.
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.
登入就可以看每一支怎麼連回核心畫面。