想請各位高手幫我看一下這些句子 - 翻譯

The speed with which they had transformed themselves
from peasant societies into industrial powerhouses,
their continuing ability to achieve growth rates
several times higher than the advanced nations, and
their increasing ability to challenge or even surpass
American and European technology in certain areas
seemed to call into questions the dominance not only
of Western power but of Western ideology.

我自己的翻譯:
他們有那種把自己從農民社會變成有工業勢力團體的速度，
他們的持續能力達到了數次高於先進國家的生長率，
而且在某些地區，他們的增加能力能夠去挑戰甚至優於
美國人跟歐洲人的技術，這似乎是對西方力量的優勢及西方的
思想感到懷疑

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