eliminate social evils meaning in English

扫除社会丑恶现象

It was right during that time , martin begin a serious intellectual quest for a method to eliminate social evil
正是在那段时间，马丁开始了认真而理性地探索消除社会罪恶的方法。
It borrows a lot from the methods of hugo , a french writer producing works to some different extent , such as in abstraction of the themes , the methods of characters ' setup and depiction , and even in his methods of salvation for eliminating social evils
该书无论是在主题提炼、人物设置与刻画手法，乃至为消除社会弊病所开设的济世药方等方面，都不同程度地借鉴了法国作家雨果的创作方法。