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to be happy I came across a paragraph going " In childhood we are happy to receive; it is the first opening of love. In youth we take and give, dedicate and possess – rapture and anguish are mingled, until parenthood brings a dedication that, TO BE HAPPY, must ask for no return. All these are new horizons of content, which the lust of holding, the enemy of love, slowly contaminates." What does the "TO BE HAPPY" mean here? Does this mean"If we want to be happy we must ask for no return" or mean"..a dedication that musk ask for no return,which I think is happy to us."? And,If you know a little Chinese, could you please help me to translate this sentence into Chinese? Thanks!!

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"To be happy" works as an Infinitive of Purpose (you can look this up). It's the same meaning as "in order to be happy". Your first interpretation is correct.

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