sentence with まだ近所迷惑程度で済んだ - how to translate


Chapter 1 of がばいばあちゃん has the following sentence.

> けれど、家の中でピーピー泣いているうちは、 _まだ近所迷惑程度で済んだ_ 。(my italics)

Two things stood out when I was trying to make a translation. One is ピーピー.
What sort of crying is this exactly? Or would we just say crying with the
sound "peepee"?

As for the italics part, I attempted this overall translation.

> However, while I cried with a waah waah from inside the house, I still ended
> up being a nuisance to the neighbourhood.

(I realise うち means 'during', not 'inside'). I'm not entirely sure about why
まだ is included, although before the text does mention the protagonist crying
before as well as a result of his separation from his mother. Another thing
that confused me is the で済んだ construction. I thought this was generally used
in the positive sense of "get by without ~ing", but here it appears to be
negative. Please enlighten me.




> crying with the sound "peepee"

Theoretically so. But it's actually an onomatopoeia that diminutively and
figuratively hints crying of a small animal like a bird chirping.

> まだ近所迷惑程度で済んだ。
>
> I still ended up being a nuisance to the neighbourhood.

This 済む means something like "only being." He is saying that he was still
"just being a nuisance to the neighbourhood" at that stage or time but this まだ
hints he would be a bigger problem later.




> crying with the sound "peepee"

Theoretically so. But it's actually an onomatopoeia that diminutively and
figuratively hints crying of a small animal like a bird chirping.

> まだ近所迷惑程度で済んだ。
>
> I still ended up being a nuisance to the neighbourhood.

This 済む means something like "only being." He is saying that he was still
"just being a nuisance to the neighbourhood" at that stage or time but this まだ
hints he would be a bigger problem later.

