我需要休息一段时间。

I need some time off.

《牛津词典》

因为本内特先生需要请假一段时间，所以他要求开一张病假条。

Since Mr. Bennett was going to need some time off work, he asked for a sick note.

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

这个国家需要一段平静的时期，不再有重大变化所引发的动荡。

The country needs a period of calm without more surges of radical change.

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

These things run for variable amounts of time because they take input, a list of size of some amount.

而这一段的执行时间是可变的,因为它们需要输入一个包含一些元素的列表。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Whether Gadamer means that when he speaks of gap or whether he simply means an abyss or a distance to be crossed I couldn't say.

当葛达玛说到间隙时是那个意思,还是仅仅认为它是需要跨越的一个深渊或者一段距离,我不能确定。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

So what she's going to do is start loading up the electrons, and you see this wand here move slowly, and it takes a while to do it, start become perpendicular.

所以她将要加载电子，你们看到这个棒慢慢地移动，这个需要一段时间，开始变得垂直了。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选