My footprints are just marks on the sandbeach, fading away with the ebb and flow.
我的足迹也只是沙滩上的印迹,随朝涨潮落而消褪。
The shapes faded (away) into the night.
这些形象在夜色中消失。
The noise gradually faded away.
喧闹声消失了。
But the antibusiness strictures were gradually eviscerated by the courts and by lack of implementation, and the WPC faded away, though Kearney himself lived on until 1907.