The publishing house announced it would be dropping 19 of its
journals associated with a publisher they had acquired, in part
because they infested with fake papers.
前面的"publishing house"和"publisher"應該是不一樣的，
但中文的翻譯好像都是出版社或出版商，那差別在哪裡？
還有" with a publisher they had acquired "的"they"是指甚麼？
是指publishing house? 但前面代名詞已經用單數it
還是指 journals ? 那要"...had acquired"要怎麼翻譯理解？
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一般來說應該同義，在這篇應有"規模"的差異(前大後小)they: 指前者"publishing house"it: 一樣指前者had acquired: 大出版社收購小出版社連同其出版品