(1) [son;male offspring]∶子嗣
(2) [interest]∶利息
我还知道,在鄂榭家族史上还从未有过子息繁盛的时候,于是,数百年来,家族的姓氏连同家族的宅第均是由父及子由子及孙一脉单传。
I also knew that in the Usher family there had never been many children and so for hundreds of years the family name , together with the family home , had passed straight from father to son .