отойти на второй план(Politics recedes into the background, to be replaced in the foreground by the theme that is to characterize Amado's fiction from1958 on: the exotic, eroticized piquancy of Bahia's Afro-Brazilian culture, most often as epitomized in women, music, and food. VLZ_58)
стать воспоминаниями(Eric came to Canada. His life here proceeded and he raised a family and the decades went by. His days and work at Cambridge receded to memory. – стали далёкими воспоминаниями ART Vancouver)